A5060707177- Dialysis and Renal Disease Management
- Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
- Acute Myocardial Infarction Research
- Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics
- Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics
- Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Reproductive Health and Contraception
- Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery
- Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management
- Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair
- Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
- Pharmacological Effects and Toxicity Studies
- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Research
- Retinal and Optic Conditions
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Heart Failure Treatment and Management
- Topic Modeling
- Neurological and metabolic disorders
- Antiplatelet Therapy and Cardiovascular Diseases
- Retinal Diseases and Treatments
- Medication Adherence and Compliance
- Ocular Diseases and Behçet’s Syndrome
- Gastrointestinal motility and disorders
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
University of Waterloo
2017-2020
Western University
2011-2017
College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan
2009-2011
Abstract Background In classification and diagnostic testing, the receiver-operator characteristic (ROC) plot area under ROC curve (AUC) describe how an adjustable threshold causes changes in two types of error: false positives negatives. Only part AUC are informative however when they used with imbalanced data. Hence, alternatives to have been proposed, such as partial precision-recall curve. However, these cannot be fully interpreted AUC, because ignore some information about actual...
Background Studies have shown the effectiveness and user acceptance of mobile health (mHealth) technologies in managing patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). However, incorporating mHealth technology into standard care CKD still faces many challenges. To our knowledge, there are no reviews on interventions their assessments concerning management undergoing dialysis. Objective This study provided a scoping review existing apps adult dialysis identified gaps patient outcome assessment...
Health literacy is pre-requisite for better health outcomes. an unexplored concept in Pakistan. This study aimed to assess concept-based level the adult population of Karachi. A cross-sectional survey was conducted 2015, respondents were recruited from three randomly selected towns multistage random sampling technique used recruit 315 participants who interviewed on validated Literacy Survey Questionnaire (HLS-Asia-Q). Basic demographics, responses each question and matrix compile results....
Studies have shown that mental health and comorbidities such as dementia, diabetes cardiovascular diseases are risk factors for dialysis patients. Extracting accurate timely information associated with these in the patient records is not only important management, but also real-world evidence generation. We presented HERALD, an natural language processing (NLP) system extracting related to of patients from free-text progress notes electronic management system. By converting semi-structured...
Objective: To determine the frequency of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) by spirometric screening in smokers presenting to tertiary care center.Design: This Cross sectional study was carried out at Medical department, Civil Hospital Hyderabad from April 2006 September 2006. The main outcome variables were COPD smokers, symptoms and proportion severity classification.Results: mean age clients 39.77±6.30 years. population 75 (75%) patients have cough, 53 (53%) sputum 34 (34%)...
Purpose: Cardiovascular rehabilitation programs (CRPs) are effective in secondary stroke prevention, yet the enrollment rate is suboptimal. This study aims to identify demographic and clinical factors patient-reported reasons for non-enrollment a center-based outpatient CRP among patients with transient ischemic attack (TIA) or mild stroke. Methods: mixed-method retrospective chart review was conducted an affiliated tertiary care hospital Canada from January 2009 October 2017. A total of 621...
Digestive symptoms are the most common and frequent being reported. It is difficult to measure their effects on quality of life, as they varied by age gender. Therefore, our aim was determine effect gastric life explore relationship with A secondary analysis an original pragmatic randomized trial repeated measurements conducted in gastroenterology clinic UK from 28 July 2006 31 January 2007 some 302 patients presenting any complaint, following selection criteria. Gastric symptom determined...
Abstract Background: Research on the factors associated with dialysis withdrawal in patients has been limited. Authors have used different definitions for withdrawal, resulting inconsistent findings. The objective of this study was to determine patients. Methods: This retrospective extracted patient information from electronic renal management systems at Grand River Hospital. A total 723 who initiated therapy (> 30 days duration) program Hospital (GRH), Ontario, during period 1st January...