Search Results - "Annals of translational medicine"

Global low back pain prevalence and years lived with disability from 1990 to 2017: estimates from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 by Wu, Aimin, March, Lyn, Zheng, Xuanqi, Huang, Jinfeng, Wang, Xiangyang, Zhao, Jie, Blyth, Fiona M, Smith, Emma, Buchbinder, Rachelle, Hoy, Damian

“…Low back pain (LBP) is a common musculoskeletal problem globally. Updating the prevalence and burden of LBP is important for researchers and policy makers…”
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Balance diagnostics after propensity score matching by Zhang, Zhongheng, Kim, Hwa Jung, Lonjon, Guillaume, Zhu, Yibing

“…Propensity score matching (PSM) is a popular method in clinical researches to create a balanced covariate distribution between treated and untreated groups…”
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A bibliometric analysis using VOSviewer of publications on COVID-19 by Yu, Yuetian, Li, Yujie, Zhang, Zhongheng, Gu, Zhichun, Zhong, Han, Zha, Qiongfang, Yang, Luyu, Zhu, Cheng, Chen, Erzhen

“…As a global pandemic, COVID-19 has aroused great concern in the last few months and a growing number of related researches have been published. Therefore, a…”
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Time-varying covariates and coefficients in Cox regression models by Zhang, Zhongheng, Reinikainen, Jaakko, Adeleke, Kazeem Adedayo, Pieterse, Marcel E, Groothuis-Oudshoorn, Catharina G M

“…Time-varying covariance occurs when a covariate changes over time during the follow-up period. Such variable can be analyzed with the Cox regression model to…”
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Epidemiology of coronary heart disease and acute coronary syndrome by Sanchis-Gomar, Fabian, Perez-Quilis, Carme, Leischik, Roman, Lucia, Alejandro

“…The aim of this review is to summarize the incidence, prevalence, trend in mortality, and general prognosis of coronary heart disease (CHD) and a related…”
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A review of the application of deep learning in medical image classification and segmentation by Cai, Lei, Gao, Jingyang, Zhao, Di

“…Big medical data mainly include electronic health record data, medical image data, gene information data, etc. Among them, medical image data account for the…”
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Morbidity and mortality associated with obesity by Abdelaal, Mahmoud, le Roux, Carel W, Docherty, Neil G

“…Obesity and its repercussions constitute an important source of morbidity, impaired quality of life and its complications can have a major bearing on life…”
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Chinese expert consensus on the perinatal and neonatal management for the prevention and control of the 2019 novel coronavirus infection (First edition) by Wang, Laishuan, Shi, Yuan, Xiao, Tiantian, Fu, Jianhua, Feng, Xing, Mu, Dezhi, Feng, Qi, Hei, Mingyan, Hu, Xiaojing, Li, Zhankui, Lu, Guoping, Tang, Zezhong, Wang, Yajuan, Wang, Chuanqing, Xia, Shiwen, Xu, Jianqing, Yang, Yujia, Yang, Jie, Zeng, Mei, Zheng, Jun, Zhou, Wei, Zhou, Xiaoyu, Zhou, Xiaoguang, Du, Lizhong, Lee, Shoo K, Zhou, Wenhao

“…Since December 2019, there has been an outbreak of novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) infection in China. Two cases of neonates with positive 2019-nCoV tests have…”
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Concise update on colorectal cancer epidemiology by Mattiuzzi, Camilla, Sanchis-Gomar, Fabian, Lippi, Giuseppe

“…Colorectal cancer is a type of gastrointestinal malignancy originating from either the colon or rectum. In this short report we provide a concise update on…”
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In-depth mining of clinical data: the construction of clinical prediction model with R by Zhou, Zhi-Rui, Wang, Wei-Wei, Li, Yan, Jin, Kai-Rui, Wang, Xuan-Yi, Wang, Zi-Wei, Chen, Yi-Shan, Wang, Shao-Jia, Hu, Jing, Zhang, Hui-Na, Huang, Po, Zhao, Guo-Zhen, Chen, Xing-Xing, Li, Bo, Zhang, Tian-Song

“…This article is the series of methodology of clinical prediction model construction (total 16 sections of this methodology series). The first section mainly…”
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Multiple imputation with multivariate imputation by chained equation (MICE) package by Zhang, Zhongheng

“…Multiple imputation (MI) is an advanced technique for handing missing values. It is superior to single imputation in that it takes into account uncertainty in…”
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Missing data imputation: focusing on single imputation by Zhang, Zhongheng

“…Complete case analysis is widely used for handling missing data, and it is the default method in many statistical packages. However, this method may introduce…”
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Introduction to machine learning: k-nearest neighbors by Zhang, Zhongheng

“…Machine learning techniques have been widely used in many scientific fields, but its use in medical literature is limited partly because of technical…”
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Variable selection with stepwise and best subset approaches by Zhang, Zhongheng

“…While purposeful selection is performed partly by software and partly by hand, the stepwise and best subset approaches are automatically performed by software…”
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Propensity score matching with R: conventional methods and new features by Zhao, Qin-Yu, Luo, Jing-Chao, Su, Ying, Zhang, Yi-Jie, Tu, Guo-Wei, Luo, Zhe

“…It is increasingly important to accurately and comprehensively estimate the effects of particular clinical treatments. Although randomization is the current…”
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Augmented and virtual reality in surgery-the digital surgical environment: applications, limitations and legal pitfalls by Khor, Wee Sim, Baker, Benjamin, Amin, Kavit, Chan, Adrian, Patel, Ketan, Wong, Jason

“…The continuing enhancement of the surgical environment in the digital age has led to a number of innovations being highlighted as potential disruptive…”
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The critical role and molecular mechanisms of ferroptosis in antioxidant systems: a narrative review by Liu, Meng, Kong, Xiao-Yu, Yao, Yuan, Wang, Xin-An, Yang, Wei, Wu, Hui, Li, Song, Ding, Jia-Wang, Yang, Jian

“…Ferroptosis is a recently discovered form of cell death which differs from other forms of cell death in terms of morphology, biochemistry, and regulatory…”
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Post-stroke cognitive impairment: epidemiology, mechanisms and management by Sun, Jia-Hao, Tan, Lan, Yu, Jin-Tai

“…Post-stroke cognitive impairment occurs frequently in the patients with stroke. The prevalence of post-stroke cognitive impairment ranges from 20% to 80%,…”
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Solid organ transplantation in the 21st century by Black, Cara K., Termanini, Kareem M., Aguirre, Oswaldo, Hawksworth, Jason S., Sosin, Michael

“…Solid organ transplantation (SOT) has emerged from an experimental approach in the 20th century to now being an established and practical definitive treatment…”
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Report of cancer incidence and mortality in China, 2010 by Chen, Wanqing, Zheng, Rongshou, Zhang, Siwei, Zhao, Ping, Zeng, Hongmei, Zou, Xiaonong

“…To estimate the cancer incidences and mortalities in China in 2010. On basis of the evaluation procedures and data quality criteria described in the National…”
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