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Research Articles

Naïve Bayes is an interpretable and predictive machine learning algorithm in predicting osteoporotic hip fracture in-hospital mortality compared to other machine learning algorithms

Jo-Wai Douglas Wang

PLOS Digital Health: published January 2, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000529

Developing a competency model for telerehabilitation therapists and patients: Results of a cross-sectional online survey

Anna Lea Stark-Blomeier, Stephan Krayter, Christoph Dockweiler

PLOS Digital Health: published January 3, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000710

A scoping review of the electronic collection and capture of patient reported outcome measures for children and young people in the hospital setting

Anne Alarilla, Neil J. Sebire, Josh Keith, Mario Cortina-Borja, Jo Wray, Gwyneth Davies

PLOS Digital Health: published January 6, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000704

A mobile intervention to reduce anxiety among university students, faculty, and staff: Mixed methods study on users’ experiences

Sarah Livermon, Audrey Michel, Yiyang Zhang, Kaitlyn Petz, Emma Toner, Mark Rucker, Mehdi Boukhechba, Laura E. Barnes, Bethany A. Teachman

PLOS Digital Health: published January 7, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000601

Post-concussion symptom burden and dynamics: Insights from a digital health intervention and machine learning

Rebecca Blundell, Christine d’Offay, Charles Hand, Daniel Tadmor, Alan Carson, David Gillespie, Matthew Reed, Aimun A. B. Jamjoom

PLOS Digital Health: published January 7, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000697

The Goldilocks Zone: Finding the right balance of user and institutional risk for suicide-related generative AI queries

Anna R. Van Meter, Michael G. Wheaton, Victoria E. Cosgrove, Katerina Andreadis, Ronald E. Robertson

PLOS Digital Health: published January 8, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000711

The value of diabetes technology enabled coaching (DTEC) to support remission evaluation of medical interventions in T2D: Patient and health coach perspectives

Madison Taylor, Denise Ng, Kaylen J. Pfisterer, Joseph A. Cafazzo, Diana Sherifali

PLOS Digital Health: published January 9, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000701

A data management system for precision medicine

John J. L. Jacobs, Inés Beekers, Inge Verkouter, Levi B. Richards, Alexandra Vegelien, Lizan D. Bloemsma, Vera A. M. C. Bongaerts, Jacqueline Cloos, Frederik Erkens, Patrycja Gradowska, Simon Hort, Michael Hudecek, Manel Juan, Anke H. Maitland-van der Zee, Sergio Navarro-Velázquez, Lok Lam Ngai, Qasim A. Rafiq, Carmen Sanges, Jesse Tettero, Hendrikus J. A. van Os, Rimke C. Vos, Yolanda de Wit, Steven van Dijk

PLOS Digital Health: published January 9, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000464

Performance evaluation and comparative analysis of different machine learning algorithms in predicting postnatal care utilization: Evidence from the ethiopian demographic and health survey 2016

Daniel Niguse Mamo, Agmasie Damtew Walle, Eden Ketema Woldekidan, Jibril Bashir Adem, Yosef Haile Gebremariam, Meron Asmamaw Alemayehu, Ermias Bekele Enyew, Shimels Derso Kebede

PLOS Digital Health: published January 9, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000707

Use of assistive technology to assess distal motor function in subjects with neuromuscular disease

Dominique Vincent-Genod, Sylvain Roche, Aurélie Barrière, Capucine de Lattre, Marie Tinat, Eelke Venema, Emmeline Lagrange, Adriana Gomes Lisboa de Souza, Guillaume Thomann, Justine Coton, Vincent Gautheron, Léonard Féasson, Pascal Rippert, Carole Vuillerot

PLOS Digital Health: published January 13, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000534

Natural language processing to evaluate texting conversations between patients and healthcare providers during COVID-19 Home-Based Care in Rwanda at scale

Richard T. Lester, Matthew Manson, Muhammed Semakula, Hyeju Jang, Hassan Mugabo, Ali Magzari, Junhong Ma Blackmer, Fanan Fattah, Simon Pierre Niyonsenga, Edson Rwagasore, Charles Ruranga, Eric Remera, Jean Claude S. Ngabonziza, Giuseppe Carenini, Sabin Nsanzimana

PLOS Digital Health: published January 15, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000625

Study protocol for a multi-center stepped-wedge cluster randomized trial to explore the usability and outcomes among young people living with HIV in Kiambu and Kirinyaga counties of Kenya, using an online health portal

Eric Nturibi, Jared Mecha, Elizabeth Kubo, Albert Orwa, Florence Kaara, Faith Musau, Christine Wamuyu, Justus Kilonzi, Randeep Gill, Sanne Roels

PLOS Digital Health: published January 17, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000380

Predicting the onset of chronic kidney disease (CKD) for diabetic patients with aggregated longitudinal EMR data

Neda Aminnejad, Michelle Greiver, Huaxiong Huang

PLOS Digital Health: published January 22, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000700

Synthetic data as external control arms in scarce single-arm clinical trials

Severin Elvatun, Daan Knoors, Simon Brant, Christian Jonasson, Jan F. Nygård

PLOS Digital Health: published January 23, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000581

Quality of life disparities among Mexican people with systemic lupus erythematosus

Ana Laura Hernández-Ledesma, Domingo Martínez, Elizabeth Fajardo-Brigido, Talía V. Román-López, Karen J. Nuñez-Reza, Andrea Y. Tapia-Atilano, Sandra V. Vera del Valle, Donají Domínguez-Zúñiga, Lizbet Tinajero-Nieto, Angélica Peña-Ayala, Estefania Torres-Valdez, Gabriel Frontana-Vázquez, María Gutiérrez-Arcelus, Florencia Rosetti, Sarael Alcauter, Miguel E. Rentería, Alejandra E. Ruiz-Contreras, Deshiré Alpízar-Rodríguez, Alejandra Medina-Rivera

PLOS Digital Health: published January 23, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000706

A comparison of CXR-CAD software to radiologists in identifying COVID-19 in individuals evaluated for Sars CoV-2 infection in Malawi and Zambia

Sam Linsen, Aurélie Kamoun, Andrews Gunda, Tamara Mwenifumbo, Chancy Chavula, Lindiwe Nchimunya, Yucheng Tsai, Namwaka Mulenga, Godfrey Kadewele, Eunice Nahache Kajombo, Veronica Sunkutu, Jane Shawa, Rigveda Kadam, Matthew Arentz

PLOS Digital Health: published January 23, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000535

Developing a youth-friendly internet-enabled HIV risk calculator: A collaborative approach with young key populations, living in Soweto, South Africa

Mamakiri Mulaudzi, Gugulethu Tshabalala, Stefanie Hornschuh, Kofi Ebenezer Okyere-dede, Minjue Wu, Oluwatobi Ifeloluwa Ariyo, Janan J. Dietrich

PLOS Digital Health: published January 31, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000672

Review

Epidemiological methods in transition: Minimizing biases in classical and digital approaches

Sara Mesquita, Lília Perfeito, Daniela Paolotti, Joana Gonçalves-Sá

PLOS Digital Health: published January 13, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000670

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