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  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,354 Views
14 Pages

Heath code apps, along with robust testing, isolation, and the care of cases, are a vital strategy for containing the spread of the COVID-19 outbreak in China. They have remained stable and consistent, allowing China to extensively restore its social...

  • Article
  • Open Access
810 Views
13 Pages

Social Determinants of Health ICD-10 Code Use by a Large Integrated Healthcare System

  • Cynthia Hau,
  • Janet M. Grubber,
  • Ryan E. Ferguson,
  • William C. Cushman,
  • Areef Ishani,
  • Peter A. Glassman,
  • Colleen A. Hynes and
  • Sarah M. Leatherman

27 October 2025

Background/Objectives: Identifying social determinants of health (SDOH) is important for effective clinical care. The ICD-10 introduced diagnostic categories to describe patients’ adverse SDOH, but these codes are infrequently used across healt...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,949 Views
17 Pages

23 August 2025

Background/Objectives: There has been growing interest in understanding the impact of social determinants of health (SDoHs) on health outcomes. Since 2015, healthcare providers have begun to document patients’ SDoH systematically using ICD-10 Z...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,316 Views
13 Pages

As a result of working inside homes, city housing inspectors witness hidden and serious threats to public health. However, systems to respond to the range of problems they encounter are lacking. In this study, we describe the impact and enabling envi...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
63 Citations
35,649 Views
29 Pages

Breastfeeding is critical to maternal and child health and survival, and the benefits persist until later in life. Inappropriate marketing of breastmilk substitutes (BMS), feeding bottles, and teats threatens the enabling environment of breastfeeding...

  • Study Protocol
  • Open Access
2,022 Views
8 Pages

Background: The lack of a national intervention coding system and the current intervention coding in South Africa through the use of multiple billing and coding systems does not support quality intervention data collection and patient outcomes report...

  • Article
  • Open Access
133 Citations
12,795 Views
18 Pages

22 October 2021

Structural damages occur in modern structures during operations due to environmental and human factors. The damages accumulating with time may lead to a significant decrease in structure performance or even destruction; natural symmetry is broken, re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,817 Views
11 Pages

The Chinese language has witnessed remarkable changes in the past several decades, marked by a rapid rise of new words, frequent innovation of pseudo-affixes, and a notable increase in word length. By analyzing the creation, spread, and expansion of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
13,490 Views
16 Pages

Implementation of the Code of Marketing of Breast-Milk Substitutes in Vietnam: Marketing Practices by the Industry and Perceptions of Caregivers and Health Workers

  • Tuan T. Nguyen,
  • Ha T. T. Tran,
  • Jennifer Cashin,
  • Van D. C. Nguyen,
  • Amy Weissman,
  • Trang T. Nguyen,
  • Bridget Kelly and
  • Roger Mathisen

22 August 2021

Background: The promotion of breastmilk substitutes (BMS) is an important barrier to successful breastfeeding. Objective: To examine the enactment and implementation of the Code of Marketing of Breast-Milk Substitutes (the Code) in Vietnam with a foc...

  • Protocol
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,400 Views
13 Pages

This is the protocol for a scoping review that aims to systematically explore and summarise the published evidence of violations of the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes (the Code) and subsequent World Health Assembly Resolut...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5,635 Views
15 Pages

26 May 2015

The first Code of Medical Ethics promulgated by the American Medical Association (AMA) in 1847 included a provision that essentially obligated physicians to care for those in their communities who could not afford to pay for professional services. Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,562 Views
16 Pages

Leveraging Language Models for Inpatient Diagnosis Coding

  • Kerdkiat Suvirat,
  • Detphop Tanasanchonnakul,
  • Sawrawit Chairat and
  • Sitthichok Chaichulee

21 August 2023

Medical coding plays an essential role in medical billing, health resource planning, clinical research and quality assessment. Automated coding systems offer promising solutions to streamline the coding process, improve accuracy and reduce the burden...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,308 Views
13 Pages

Control of Mitochondrial Activity by the Ubiquitin Code in Health and Cancer

  • Laura Rinaldi,
  • Emanuela Senatore,
  • Rosa Iannucci,
  • Francesco Chiuso and
  • Antonio Feliciello

5 January 2023

Cellular homeostasis is tightly connected to the broad variety of mitochondrial functions. To stay healthy, cells need a constant supply of nutrients, energy production and antioxidants defenses, undergoing programmed death when a serious, irreversib...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
8,788 Views
14 Pages

Children, Media and Food. A New Paradigm in Food Advertising, Social Marketing and Happiness Management

  • Rodrigo Elías Zambrano,
  • Gloria Jiménez-Marín,
  • Araceli Galiano-Coronil and
  • Rafael Ravina-Ripoll

The growing number of children who are obese or overweight in certain countries or geographical areas is a fact, as evidenced by the continuous studies and reports on the subject, endorsed or carried out by the World Health Organisation and independe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,718 Views
18 Pages

Background: Virtual coaching can help people adopt new healthful behaviors by encouraging them to set specific goals and helping them review their progress. One challenge in creating such systems is analyzing clients’ statements about their act...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,696 Views
19 Pages

27 May 2021

Health and nutrition claims are used by consumers to guide purchasing decisions. In consequence, monitoring and evaluation of such claims to ensure they are accurate and transparent is required. The aim of this study was to investigate the use of nut...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,026 Views
23 Pages

RUDA-2025: Depression Severity Detection Using Pre-Trained Transformers on Social Media Data

  • Muhammad Ahmad,
  • Pierpaolo Basile,
  • Fida Ullah,
  • Ildar Batyrshin and
  • Grigori Sidorov

18 August 2025

Depression is a serious mental health disorder affecting cognition, emotions, and behavior. It impacts over 300 million people globally, with mental health care costs exceeding $1 trillion annually. Traditional diagnostic methods are often expensive,...

  • Commentary
  • Open Access
12 Citations
8,653 Views
10 Pages

Pharmaceutical care describes a philosophy and practice paradigm that calls upon pharmacists to work with other healthcare professionals and patients to achieve optimal health outcomes. Among the most accessible health professionals, pharmacists have...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,215 Views
15 Pages

31 December 2023

Any hospital’s primary goal is to restore human health and save lives through health services provided to patients, but at the same time, hazardous wastes are produced. Inconsistent management of unsafe wastes might cause adverse effects and ot...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,489 Views
21 Pages

HPDH-MI: A High Payload Data Hiding Technique for Medical Images Based on AMBTC

  • Chia-Chen Lin,
  • Mostafa Mirzaei,
  • En-Ting Chu and
  • Chen Chih Cheng

10 December 2024

In the realm of electronic health (eHealth) services powered by the Internet of Things (IoT), vast quantities of medical images and visualized electronic health records collected by IoT devices must be transmitted daily. Given the sensitive nature of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,375 Views
13 Pages

The high costs associated with pharmaceuticals and the accompanying stakeholders are being closely evaluated in the search for solutions. As a major stakeholder in the U.S. pharmaceutical market, the practices of pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) organi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
833 Views
16 Pages

Machine Learning in Adolescent Mental Health: Advanced Comorbidity Analysis and Text Mining Insights

  • Dafni Patsiala,
  • Konstantinos Bolias,
  • Fani Passia,
  • Georgios Feretzakis,
  • Athanasios Anastasiou and
  • Yiannis Koumpouros

29 August 2025

Background: Justice-involved adolescents exhibit high rates of mental health disorders with complex comorbidity patterns. Understanding these patterns is crucial for developing targeted interventions in this vulnerable population. Methods: We applied...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
17,794 Views
17 Pages

Building Drainage System Design for Tall Buildings: Current Limitations and Public Health Implications

  • Michael Gormley,
  • David Kelly,
  • David Campbell,
  • Yunpeng Xue and
  • Colin Stewart

16 February 2021

National design guides provide essential guidance for the design of building drainage systems, which primarily ensure the basic objectives of preventing odor ingress and cross-transmission of disease through water-trap seal retention. Current buildin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,759 Views
27 Pages

6 July 2023

In China, rural summer health tourism for the urban elderly (RSHTUE) is growing rapidly, but the drivers of RSHTUE development have not been systematically explored. First, this study conducted semi-structured interviews with operators, village leade...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,433 Views
11 Pages

7 January 2020

Prader–Willi syndrome (PWS) is an imprinting disorder caused by lack of expression of the paternally inherited 15q11.2–q13 chromosome region. The risk of death from obesity-related complications can worsen with age, but survival trends ar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
6,661 Views
14 Pages

Preventing and controlling the risk of importing the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has rapidly become a major concern. In addition to air freight, ocean-going ships play a non-negligible role in spreading COVID-19 due to frequent visits to countries...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,539 Views
19 Pages

Optimized Identification of Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease and Absence of Kidney Disease by Combining Different Electronic Health Data Resources and by Applying Machine Learning Strategies

  • Christoph Weber,
  • Lena Röschke,
  • Luise Modersohn,
  • Christina Lohr,
  • Tobias Kolditz,
  • Udo Hahn,
  • Danny Ammon,
  • Boris Betz and
  • Michael Kiehntopf

12 September 2020

Automated identification of advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD ≥ III) and of no known kidney disease (NKD) can support both clinicians and researchers. We hypothesized that identification of CKD and NKD can be improved, by combining information...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,267 Views
16 Pages

Patients’ Data Management System Protected by Identity-Based Authentication and Key Exchange

  • Alexandra Rivero-García,
  • Iván Santos-González,
  • Candelaria Hernández-Goya,
  • Pino Caballero-Gil and
  • Moti Yung

31 March 2017

A secure and distributed framework for the management of patients’ information in emergency and hospitalization services is proposed here in order to seek improvements in efficiency and security in this important area. In particular, confidentiality...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
2,679 Views
24 Pages

25 June 2025

Despite having the world’s largest HIV burden, South Africa has yet to attain the 95-95-95 targets. Accurate, complete, and timely data are critical for monitoring a country’s HIV progress. The integration of unique identifier codes (UICs...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
5,370 Views
23 Pages

Automatic Text Summarization for Hindi Using Real Coded Genetic Algorithm

  • Arti Jain,
  • Anuja Arora,
  • Jorge Morato,
  • Divakar Yadav and
  • Kumar Vimal Kumar

29 June 2022

In the present scenario, Automatic Text Summarization (ATS) is in great demand to address the ever-growing volume of text data available online to discover relevant information faster. In this research, the ATS methodology is proposed for the Hindi l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,152 Views
15 Pages

30 April 2022

In this study, 258 soil samples were collected to determine the total content and each speciation fraction of chromium (Cr), manganese (Mn), copper (Cu), zinc (Zn), cadmium (Cd), and lead (Pb) in the soil by inductively coupled plasma mass spectromet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
161 Views
15 Pages

Downregulation of the Long Non-Coding RNA KLRK1-AS1 Disturbs Endothelial Barrier Integrity and Promotes Angiogenic Sprouting

  • Elisa Weiss,
  • Azra Kulovic-Sissawo,
  • Anke S. van Bergen,
  • Veerle Kremer,
  • Mariana S. Diniz,
  • Carolina Tocantins,
  • Susana P. Pereira,
  • Reinier A. Boon and
  • Ursula Hiden

5 February 2026

Endothelial integrity is essential for cardiovascular health, and circulating endothelial progenitor cells, particularly endothelial colony-forming cells (ECFCs), are key contributors to vascular repair and maintenance. Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,758 Views
17 Pages

ICD-11 Morbidity Pilot in Kuwait: Methodology and Lessons Learned for Future Implementation

  • Islam Ibrahim,
  • Mohammad Alrashidi,
  • Mustafa Al-Salamin,
  • Nenad Kostanjsek,
  • Robert Jakob,
  • Suhair Azam,
  • Naela Al-Mazeedi and
  • Fatima Al-Asoomi

This paper reports on the first ICD-11 morbidity pilot for inpatient discharges in a public general hospital. We detail the pilot methodology, lessons learned in terms of facilitators and challenges, physician-reported opinion, and considerations for...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,801 Views
27 Pages

Evidence-Based Lessons from Policy Implementation Research in Two Countries Achieving Progress on Global Breastfeeding Targets: Recommendations from the Philippines and Viet Nam

  • Catherine Pereira-Kotze,
  • Paul Zambrano,
  • Tuan T. Nguyen,
  • Janice Datu-Sanguyo,
  • Duong Vu,
  • Constance Ching,
  • Jennifer Cashin and
  • Roger Mathisen

Background/Objectives: There is extensive evidence that breastfeeding saves lives, improves health, and provides value to the economy and societies worldwide. The Philippines and Viet Nam have progressive policies to enable breastfeeding, and breastf...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,994 Views
16 Pages

SSVM: An Ultra-Low-Power Strain Sensing and Visualization Module for Long-Term Structural Health Monitoring

  • Suleman Khan,
  • Jongbin Won,
  • Junsik Shin,
  • Junyoung Park,
  • Jong-Woong Park,
  • Seung-Eock Kim,
  • Yun Jang and
  • Dong Joo Kim

22 March 2021

Structural health monitoring (SHM) is crucial for quantitative behavioral analysis of structural members such as fatigue, buckling, and crack propagation identification. However, formerly developed approaches cannot be implemented effectively for lon...

  • Review
  • Open Access
50 Views
28 Pages

8 February 2026

Skeletal muscle is increasingly recognized as a dynamic endocrine and paracrine organ that communicates with distal tissues through a diverse secretome of peptides, proteins, metabolites, and extracellular vesicles (EVs), collectively referred to as...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,836 Views
16 Pages

Mental Health Polypharmacy in “Non-Coded” Primary Care Patients: The Effect of Deprescribing

  • Waseem Jerjes,
  • Daniele Ramsay,
  • Harvey Stevenson and
  • Karima Lalji

7 February 2024

Background: Mental health (MH) polypharmacy, defined as prescribing multiple mental health medications for the same condition, presents significant challenges in clinical practice. With varying prevalence rates and an increasing trend, particularly i...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,239 Views
17 Pages

Regulation of Notch1 Signalling by Long Non-Coding RNAs in Cancers and Other Health Disorders

  • Joanna Kałafut,
  • Arkadiusz Czerwonka,
  • Karolina Czapla,
  • Alicja Przybyszewska-Podstawka,
  • Justyna Magdalena Hermanowicz,
  • Adolfo Rivero-Müller and
  • Lidia Borkiewicz

8 August 2023

Notch1 signalling plays a multifaceted role in tissue development and homeostasis. Currently, due to the pivotal role of Notch1 signalling, the relationship between NOTCH1 expression and the development of health disorders is being intensively studie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,525 Views
14 Pages

Structural health monitoring (SHM) has been extensively used in the railway industry, with applications ranging from railway infrastructures to carbody shells. An SHM method that dominates monitoring procedures is Acoustic Emissions (AE). The utilisa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,974 Views
13 Pages

Exploring the Impact of Obesity on Health Care Resources and Coding in the Acute Hospital Setting: A Feasibility Study

  • Winnie S. Y. Tan,
  • Adrienne M. Young,
  • Alexandra L. Di Bella,
  • Tracy Comans and
  • Merrilyn Banks

4 November 2020

Obesity is costly, yet there have been few attempts to estimate the actual costs of providing hospital care to the obese inpatient. This study aimed to test the feasibility of measuring obesity-related health care costs and accuracy of coding data fo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
268 Views
13 Pages

Gastrointestinal Diagnostic Coding After Spinal Cord Injury: Health Behavior Correlates and Implications for Neurogenic Bowel Management in a Nationwide Claim-Based Cohort

  • Young-Hwan Lim,
  • Jae-Hyeong Yoo,
  • Jeong-Won Park,
  • Jong-Moon Hwang,
  • Dongwoo Kang,
  • Jungkuk Lee,
  • Hyun Wook Han,
  • Kyung-Tae Kim,
  • Myung-Gwan Kim and
  • Tae-Du Jung

16 January 2026

Background: Neurogenic bowel dysfunction (NBD) is a major chronic sequela of spinal cord injury (SCI) with substantial implications for rehabilitation and long-term management. However, population-level evidence describing how gastrointestinal (GI) d...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,220 Views
25 Pages

T-Cadherin (CDH13) and Non-Coding RNAs: The Crosstalk Between Health and Disease

  • Kseniya Rubina,
  • Artem Maier,
  • Polina Klimovich,
  • Veronika Sysoeva,
  • Daniil Romashin,
  • Ekaterina Semina and
  • Vsevolod Tkachuk

T-cadherin (CDH13) is an atypical, glycosyl-phosphatidylinositol-anchored cadherin with functions ranging from axon guidance and vascular patterning to adipokine signaling and cell-fate specification. Originally identified as a homophilic cue for mig...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,883 Views
17 Pages

Electronic cigarette (e-cig) use, otherwise known as “vaping”, is widespread among adolescent never-smokers and adult smokers seeking a less-harmful alternative to combustible tobacco products. To date, however, the long-term health conse...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,799 Views
35 Pages

Non-Coding RNAs in Health and Disease: From Biomarkers to Therapeutic Targets

  • Marios A. Diamantopoulos,
  • Michaela A. Boti,
  • Triantafyllia Sarri and
  • Andreas Scorilas

17 September 2025

Non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) are critical regulators of gene expression, taking part in the modulation of multiple biological functions across a range of cell types. Initially dismissed as transcriptional noise, ncRNAs are now recognized for their signif...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,293 Views
9 Pages

The 11th Revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases, Injuries, and Causes of Death (ICD-11) will replace its predecessor as international standard for cause-of death-statistics. The digitization of healthcare is a main motiv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,210 Views
12 Pages

Understanding the Patient Experience of Receiving Clinically Actionable Genetic Results from the MyCode Community Health Initiative, a Population-Based Genomic Screening Initiative

  • Anna Baker,
  • Kasia Tolwinski,
  • Jamie Atondo,
  • F. Daniel Davis,
  • Jessica Goehringer,
  • Laney K. Jones,
  • Cassandra J. Pisieczko,
  • Amy C. Sturm,
  • Janet L. Williams and
  • Adam H. Buchanan
  • + 2 authors

15 September 2022

Understanding unselected individuals’ experiences receiving genetic results through population genomic screening is critical to advancing clinical utility and improving population health. We conducted qualitative interviews with individuals who...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,069 Views
14 Pages

The Impact of Socioeconomic Status and Comorbidities on Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer Recurrence After Image-Guided Superficial Radiation Therapy

  • Liqiao Ma,
  • Michael Digby,
  • Kevin Wright,
  • Marguerite A. Germain,
  • Erin M. McClure,
  • Francisca Kartono,
  • Syed Rahman,
  • Scott D. Friedman,
  • Candace Osborne and
  • Alpesh Desai

1 December 2024

Background: Non-melanoma skin cancers (NMSCs) are the most common cancers in the United States. Image-guided superficial radiation therapy (IGSRT) is an effective treatment for NMSCs. Patient comorbidities and socioeconomic status (SES) are known con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
566 Views
27 Pages

4 December 2025

Over recent decades, planners in the U.S. have increasingly adopted mixed-use projects to reduce automobile dependency and strengthen local community identity, although results remain inconsistent across cities. Urban health and fitness outcomes are...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,123 Views
12 Pages

14 April 2023

This study aims to investigate the association between chronic kidney disease (CKD) and sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL) using a population-based cohort study. We used data from the Korean National Health Insurance Service–Health Scree...

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