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Design of two combined health recommender systems for tailoring messages in a smoking cessation app [PDF]
arXiv, 2016 In this article, we describe the design of two recommender systems (RS) designed to support the smoking cessation process through a mobile application. We plan to use a hybrid RS (content-based, utility-based, and demographic filtering) to tailor health recommendation messages, and a content-based RS to schedule a timely delivery of the message.
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Doubly-Robust Dynamic Treatment Regimen Estimation for Binary Outcomes [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 In precision medicine, Dynamic Treatment Regimes (DTRs) are treatment protocols that adapt over time in response to a patient's observed characteristics. A DTR is a set of decision functions that takes an individual patient's information as arguments and outputs an action to be taken.
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A survey of UK optometry trainees' smoking cessation training [PDF]
, 2016 BACKGROUND: Smoking is a risk factor for a number of eye conditions, including age-related macular degeneration, cataracts and thyroid eye disease. Smoking cessation interventions have been shown to be highly cost-effective when delivered by a range of ...
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Nicobrevin for smoking cessation [PDF]
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2006 Nicobrevin is a proprietary product marketed as an aid to smoking cessation. It contains quinine, menthyl valerate, camphor and eucalyptus oil.The objective of this review was to assess the effects of Nicobrevin on long term smoking cessationWe searched the Cochrane Tobacco Addiction Group trials register.Randomized trials comparing Nicobrevin to ...
Stead, L, Lancaster, T
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Estimating the impact of treatment compliance over time on smoking cessation using data from ecological momentary assessments (EMA) [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 The Wisconsin Smoker's Health Study (WSHS2) was a longitudinal trial conducted to compare the effectiveness of two commonly used smoking cessation treatments, varenicline and combination nicotine replacement therapy (cNRT) with the less intense standard of care, nicotine patch.
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ESC-Rules: Explainable, Semantically Constrained Rule Sets [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 We describe a novel approach to explainable prediction of a continuous variable based on learning fuzzy weighted rules. Our model trains a set of weighted rules to maximise prediction accuracy and minimise an ontology-based 'semantic loss' function including user-specified constraints on the rules that should be learned in order to maximise the ...
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What is the quality of smoking cessation advice in guidelines of tobacco-related diseases? [PDF]
, 2015 Smoking is a major risk factor for a range of diseases, and quitting smoking provides considerable benefits to health. It therefore follows that clinical guidelines on disease management, particularly for diseases caused by smoking, should include ...
Agrawal, Sanjay +5 more
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Periodontitis presenting among betel quid users: A case series
Clinical Advances in Periodontics, EarlyView.Abstract Background Betel leaf chewing habit has been studied extensively, as it has been an ancient practice in many Asian countries. Although betel leaf has been reported to have potential beneficial properties, it has also been shown to have a strong association with oral diseases, including periodontitis. This case series addresses the presentation
Jungweon V. Park +2 more
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Predicting Smoking Events with a Time-Varying Semi-Parametric Hawkes Process Model [PDF]
arXiv, 2018 Health risks from cigarette smoking -- the leading cause of preventable death in the United States -- can be substantially reduced by quitting. Although most smokers are motivated to quit, the majority of quit attempts fail. A number of studies have explored the role of self-reported symptoms, physiologic measurements, and environmental context on ...
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Likelihood-Based Inference for Semi-Parametric Transformation Cure Models with Interval Censored Data [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 A simple yet effective way of modeling survival data with cure fraction is by considering Box-Cox transformation cure model (BCTM) that unifies mixture and promotion time cure models. In this article, we numerically study the statistical properties of the BCTM when applied to interval censored data.
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