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What is the return on investment for laboratory medicine? The antidote to silo budgeting in diagnostics
(2020-06)
Procuring and managing diagnostic services, such as laboratory medicine, is generally based on cost and activity. Improving productivity of laboratory services therefore tends to focus on reducing the cost per test. However, ...
Pharmaceutical industry, academia and people with experience of mental illness as partners in research: a need for ethical guidance [version 1; peer review: 1 not approved]
(2020-08)
Background: Several social and policy developments have led to research partnerships in mental health research, which depart from traditional research models. One form of such partnerships is among research institutions, ...
Where Is the Value of Laboratory Medicine and How Do You Unlock It?
(2020-09)
The innovation pathway by which a newly discovered biomarker is developed into a medical test and used in routine clinical practice comprises a number of different processes split between 2 phases. The first follows on ...
The Role of Laboratory Medicine in Value-Based Healthcare
(2020-09)
Background
The innovation pathway by which a newly discovered biomarker is developed into a medical test and used in routine clinical practice comprises a number of different processes split between 2 phases. The first ...
Med7: a transferable clinical natural language processing model for electronic health records
(2020-04)
The field of clinical natural language processing has been advanced significantly since the introduction
of deep learning models. The self-supervised representation learning and the transfer
learning paradigm became the ...
Information Extraction from Swedish Medical Prescriptions with Sig-Transformer Encoder
(2020-10)
Relying on large pretrained language models such as Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) for encoding and adding a simple prediction layer has led to impressive performance in many clinical natural ...
Measures for the integration of health and social care services for long-term health conditions: a systematic review of reviews
(2020-04)
Background:As people are living longer with higher incidences of long-term health conditions, there is a move towards greater integration of care, including integration of health and social care services. Integrated care ...
Investigating assumptions of vulnerability: A case study of the exclusion of psychiatric inpatients as participants in genetic research in low‐ and middle‐income contexts
(2020-01)
Psychiatric genetic research investigates the genetic basis of psychiatric disorders with the aim of more effectively understanding, treating, or, ultimately, preventing such disorders. Given the challenges of recruiting ...
Extracting data from diagnostic test accuracy studies for meta-analysis
(2021-01)
It is important that DTA reviews summarise all the available evidence. Studies in which the necessary information is not fully reported should not necessarily be excluded from pooled analyses. As reported in this article, ...
Dealing with categorical risk data when extracting data for meta-analysis
(2021-01)
A common problem in meta-analysis of observational studies arises when the exposure variable is categorical rather than continuous. These data may be referred to as quantile or quintile data (depending on the number of ...