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Adv Physiol Educ 2022 Aug 18. Epub 2022 Aug 18.

Department of Medical Education, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, United States.

Purpose: 1) Help novice students scaffold problem-solving, engage safely in the deliberate practice of diagnostic reasoning and medical decision-making in real-time; 2) Assess how accurately students gather and apply data in medical reasoning and treatment during High Fidelity Patient Simulations (HFPS); 3) Identify students scientific misconceptions related to the case; 4) Promote student metacognitive processing, self-assessment and self-efficacy; 5) Facilitate the explicit calibration of student confidence in deliberate reasoning with patient outcomes.

Method: Mixed method; metacognitive calibration self-assessing (MCC) survey tool applied to HFPS; N=80, 20 teams of 6 medical students; Semi-structured interviews with faculty N=5.

Results: When scored by faculty using a rubric, the mean student accuracy ranged from 23-74%, whereas their self-assessment of confidence ranged from 71-86%. Read More

Z Geburtshilfe Neonatol 2022 Aug 18. Epub 2022 Aug 18.

Division of Child Neurology, Department of Pediatrics, Pediatric Neurology, Inselspital University Hospital Bern, Bern, Switzerland.

Background: Specifying peri- and postnatal factors in children born very preterm (VPT) that affect later outcome helps to improve long-term treatment.

Aim: To enhance the predictability of 5-year cognitive outcome by perinatal, 2-year developmental and socio-economic data.

Subjects And Outcome Measures: 92 VPT infants, born 2007-2009, gestational age<32 weeks and/or birthweight of 1500 g, were assessed longitudinally including basic neonatal, socio-economic (SES), 2-year Mental Developmental Index (MDI, Bayley Scales II), 5-year Mental Processing Composite (MPC, Kaufman-Assessment Battery for Children), and Language Screening for Preschoolers data. Read More

Int J Med Inform 2022 Aug 11;166:104846. Epub 2022 Aug 11.

Golestan Research Center of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Iran. Electronic address:

Background: Golestan Population-based Cancer Registry (GPCR) with more than 15-years experiences developed an in-house online software called Cancer Data Collection and Processing (CanDCap) to improve its data collection operations from the conventional offline method to new online method. We aimed to report the methods and framework that GPCR applied to design and implementation of the CanDCap.

Methods: CanDCap was designed based on International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) protocols and standards and according to the GPCR workflow. Read More

Comput Biol Med 2022 Aug 11;148:105951. Epub 2022 Aug 11.

Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China. Electronic address:

Purpose: Calcification detection and segmentation in CT angiography (CTA) is the basis of preoperative calcification assessment and treatment determination in endovascular interventional surgery for lower-extremity atherosclerotic occlusion disease. However, the complex calcification-lumen contrast and difficult-to-locate occluded superficial femoral artery (SFA) make it challenging. This paper proposes a fast and accurate method without artery extraction to segment and detect SFA calcification in CTA using a convolutional neural network. Read More

JMIR Med Inform 2022 Aug 11. Epub 2022 Aug 11.

Dartmouth College, Department of Computer Science, 9 Maynard St, Hanover, US.

Background: Triage of textual telemedical queries is a safety-critical task for medical service providers with limited remote health resources. The prioritization of patient queries containing medically severe text is necessary to optimize resource usage and provide care to those with time-sensitive needs.

Objective: We aim to evaluate the effectiveness of transfer learning solutions on the task of telemedical triage and provide a thorough error analysis, identifying telemedicine queries which challenge state-of-the-art Natural Language Processing systems. Read More