Clustering of Pain Dynamics in Sickle Cell Disease from Sparse, Uneven Samples [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Irregularly sampled time series data are common in a variety of fields. Many typical methods for drawing insight from data fail in this case. Here we attempt to generalize methods for clustering trajectories to irregularly and sparsely sampled data. We first construct synthetic data sets, then propose and assess four methods of data alignment to allow ...
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Preoperative Prognosis Assessment of Lumbar Spinal Surgery for Low Back Pain and Sciatica Patients based on Multimodalities and Multimodal Learning [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Low back pain (LBP) and sciatica may require surgical therapy when they are symptomatic of severe pain. However, there is no effective measures to evaluate the surgical outcomes in advance. This work combined elements of Eastern medicine and machine learning, and developed a preoperative assessment tool to predict the prognosis of lumbar spinal surgery
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Patients visiting the complementary medicine clinic for pain: a cross sectional study [PDF]
, 2011 Background Pain is one of the most common reasons for seeking medical care. The purpose of this study was to characterize patients visiting the complementary medicine clinic for a pain complaint. Methods This is a cross-sectional study.
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The impact of COVID-19 on patients with chronic pain seeking care at a tertiary pain clinic
Scientific Reports, 2022 Empirical data on the health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic remain scarce, especially among patients with chronic pain. We conducted a cross-sectional study matched by season to examine patient-reported health symptoms among patients with chronic pain ...
Maisa S. Ziadni +6 more
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Сhest pain: a modern review of pain medicine
Медицина болю, 2022 . Background. Approximately 1% of all reasons for visits to primary care physicians are chest pain, and in 2–4% of these patients pain is the cause of potentially life-threatening cardiovascular disease. For a correct and quick diagnosis, it is extremely
Tetyana Anikeіeva +1 more
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An examination of pain education of medical students in Australia and New Zealand [PDF]
, 2020 Background: Unrelieved pain is a significant public health challenge in Australia and New Zealand. Medical practitioners play an essential role in the management of acute, cancer and chronic non-cancer pain. Aim: This thesis aimed to examine the delivery
Shipton, Elspeth
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Pain chronification : what should a non-pain medicine specialist know? [PDF]
, 2018 Objective: Pain is one of the most common reasons for an individual to consult their primary care physician, with most chronic pain being treated in the primary care setting. However, many primary care physicians/non-pain medicine specialists lack enough
Ahlbeck, Karsten +7 more
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Spinopelvic Anatomic Parameters Prediction Model of NSLBP based on data mining [PDF]
, 2020 Objective: The purpose of this study is to perform analysis through the low back pain open data set to predict the incidence of non-specific chronic low back pain (NSLBP) to obtain a more accurate and convenient sagittal spinopelvic parameter model. Methods: The logistic regression analysis and multilayer perceptron(MLP) algorithm is used to construct ...
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Evidence-Based Interventional Pain Medicine:According to Clinical Diagnoses [PDF]
, 2011 Unrelieved chronic pain is a worldwide epidemic. Chronic pain has been subject to multiple international initiatives through the World Health Organization.
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Equianalgesia, opioid switch and opioid association in different clinical settings: a narrative review [PDF]
, 2022 Emergency or postoperative pain often represents an authentic challenge in patients who were already on opioid treatment for chronic pain. Thus. their management requires not only the physician's ability to treat acute pain.
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