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May 2022

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Evidence of pandemic fatigue associated with stricter tiered COVID-19 restrictions
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Pandemic fatigue, the decreased motivation to adhere to social distancing measures and adopt health-protective behaviors, represents a significant concern for policymakers and health officials, as novel SARS-CoV-2 variants undermine the effects of vaccinations and non-pharmaceutical interventions become measures of last resort. Delussu, et al. (2022)

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Research Articles

Effectiveness of a tailored web app on sun protection intentions and its implications for skin cancer prevention: A randomized controlled trial

Vasileios Nittas, Margot Mütsch, Tobias Frey, Julia Braun, Milo A. Puhan

PLOS Digital Health: published May 12, 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000032

Real-time, spatial decision support to optimize malaria vector control: The case of indoor residual spraying on Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea

Guillermo A. García, Brent Atkinson, Olivier Tresor Donfack, Emily R. Hilton, Jordan M. Smith, Jeremías Nzamío Mba Eyono, Marcos Mbulito Iyanga, Liberato Motobe Vaz, Restituto Mba Nguema Avue, John Pollock, Josea Ratsirarson, Edward M. Aldrich, Wonder P. Phiri, David L. Smith, Christopher Schwabe, Carlos A. Guerra

PLOS Digital Health: published May 12, 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000025

Feasibility of continuous distal body temperature for passive, early pregnancy detection

Azure Grant, Benjamin Smarr

PLOS Digital Health: published May 16, 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000034

General practitioners’ perceptions of using virtual primary care during the COVID-19 pandemic: An international cross-sectional survey study

Edmond Li, Rosy Tsopra, Geronimo Jimenez, Alice Serafini, Gustavo Gusso, Heidrun Lingner, Maria Jose Fernandez, Greg Irving, Davorina Petek, Robert Hoffman, Vanja Lazic, Ensieh Memarian, Tuomas Koskela, Claire Collins, Sandra Milena Espitia, Ana Clavería, Katarzyna Nessler, Braden Gregory O’Neill, Kyle Hoedebecke, Mehmet Ungan, Liliana Laranjo, Saira Ghafur, Gianluca Fontana, Azeem Majeed, Josip Car, Ara Darzi, Ana Luisa Neves

PLOS Digital Health: published May 16, 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000029

A systematic review of federated learning applications for biomedical data

Matthew G. Crowson, Dana Moukheiber, Aldo Robles Arévalo, Barbara D. Lam, Sreekar Mantena, Aakanksha Rana, Deborah Goss, David W. Bates, Leo Anthony Celi

PLOS Digital Health: published May 19, 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000033

Evidence of pandemic fatigue associated with stricter tiered COVID-19 restrictions

Federico Delussu, Michele Tizzoni, Laetitia Gauvin

PLOS Digital Health: published May 26, 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000035

A literature review on the analysis of symptom-based clinical pathways: Time for a different approach?

Nammunikankanange Janak Gunatilleke, Jacques Fleuriot, Atul Anand

PLOS Digital Health: published May 26, 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000042

Clinical time-to-event prediction enhanced by incorporating compatible related outcomes

Yan Gao, Yan Cui

PLOS Digital Health: published May 26, 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000038

Feature engineering and machine learning for computer-assisted screening of children with speech disorders

Kerul Suthar, Farnaz Yousefi Zowj, Marisha Speights Atkins, Q. Peter He

PLOS Digital Health: published May 26, 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000041

Opinion

A distributed approach to the regulation of clinical AI

Trishan Panch, Erin Duralde, Heather Mattie, Gopal Kotecha, Leo Anthony Celi, Melanie Wright, Felix Greaves

PLOS Digital Health: published May 26, 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000040