Primary care was defined as scheduled outpatient encounters with primary care physicians consisting of internal medicine, family medicine, and geriatrics. Patients whose payor type changed within a year were excluded from all analyses and consisted of less than 4% of patients (N = 35,906). ...
How does the performance of machine learning classifiers in predicting school dropout compare when utilizing data up to the end of primary school (Grade 6; age 12-13) versus data up to the end of lower secondary school (Grade 9)? Can model predictions be made as early as Grade 6 without...
We defined overweight/obesity using the Chinese reference values in the main analyses and the WHO reference values in the sensitivity analyses. To explore whether family involvement influenced the effect size, we analyzed the associations between parental frequency of application use and children’s BMI...
“Community-dwelling” is defined as not living in a nursing home or other institutional care setting. These recommendations do not apply to persons with a history of osteoporotic fractures, increased risk for falls, or a diagnosis of osteoporosis or vitamin D deficiency. Rationale Importance ...
The denom- inator was defined as the time contributed by each person registered in SIDIAP throughout 2016, i.e., dur- ing the follow-up. Finally, we described the clinical characteristics of the study population using diagnostic records from SIDIAP database (details of the ICD-10 in ...
Primary lateral sclerosis (PLS) is a rare motor neuron disease characterized by upper motor neuron degeneration, diagnosed clinically due to the absence of a (neuropathological) gold standard. Post-mortem studies, particularly TDP-43 pathology analysis, are limited.This study reports on 5 cases in...
2.2.1. Meteorological data An interpolated meteorological dataset was used as the model input, with a spatial resolution of 1 km and a temporal resolution of 8 days for the period from 1980 to 2018 in China (Wang and Ye, 2021). Interpolation software (ANUSPLIN) based on a smooth thin-plat...
96 Hence, active monitoring and tight control of IBD after LT appear to be important. Around 10-25% of patients are diagnosed with recurrence of PSC in the transplanted liver (Table 2). Although it can be difficult to distinguish rPSC from other forms of sclerosing cholangitis, such as ...
21 For each physician, process measure performance was defined as the proportion of attributed and eligible patients who received the recommended care in the year, and outcome measure performance as the number of patients with an ambulatory care–sensitive admission, emergency department visit, or ...
Luminance is here defined as the local average intensity, meaning the average over the receptive fields’ spatial extent. The average of a signal is also referred to as its DC offset, and so for the DoG to strictly measure changes in contrast it must be DC balanced. To establish whether a...