Abstract The Japanese Clinical Practice Guidelines for Management of Sepsis and Septic
Shock 2020 (J-SSCG 2020), a Japanese-specific set of clinical practice guidelines for sepsis …

Deep learning (DL) is a branch of machine learning and artificial intelligence that has been
applied to many areas in different domains such as health care and drug design. Cancer …

Survival analysis is a challenging variation of regression modeling because of the presence
of censoring, where the outcome measurement is only partially known, due to, for example …

Palliative care—specialized healthcare focused on improving quality of life for patients with
serious illnesses—can help urologists to care for patients with unmet symptom, coping and …

Background During COVID-19 pandemic, visits have been prohibited in most French ICUs.
Psychological effects, for reference persons (RPs), of remote-only communication have …

How the legalization of assisted dying is changing our lives. Over the past five years,
medical aid-in-dying (also known as assisted suicide) has expanded rapidly in the United …

Background: Patients with severe acute brain injury (SABI) lack decision-making capacity,
calling on families and clinicians to make goal-concordant decisions, aligning treatment with …

Conventional scientific definitions of dementia, or its newer proposed alternate—
neurocognitive disorders place emphasis upon cognitive function, particularly memory. The …

OBJECTIVES: To assess the effectiveness of a chaplain patient navigator in improving
outcomes and reducing costs in the ICU setting. DESIGN: A randomized controlled trial at a …

Background Researchers are encountering increasing challenges in recruiting participants
for palliative and healthcare research. This paper aims to understand challenges to and …