Patients with evidence of a pain condition on long-term opioid treatment, based on electronic health records (EHR) data, were potentially eligible for the PPACT trial (described elsewhere [11]). Throughout the trial, potentially eligible patients were first mailed an informational letter and then...
The imbalanced data is a problem that has been reported in many application domains such as fraudulent transaction detection, medical diagnosis, text classification etc. It can cause a huge problem in case of customer churn prediction, because if the algorithm wrongly predicts a loyal customer as ...
In the United Republic of Tanzania, as in many regions of Sub-Saharan Africa, staff shortages in the healthcare system are a persistent problem, particularly in rural areas. To explore staff shortages and ways of keeping workers in post, we ask, (a) Which cadres are most problematic to rec...
Currently, there are no clinical data regarding the effects of magnesium sulfate on POUR. Here, we investigated the effects of intraoperative magnesium sulfate infusion in patients with POUR following total knee arthroplasty. We reviewed the medical records of patients who underwent elective unilateral ...