OBJECTIVES This paper reviews work over the past two years in Natural Language Processing (NLP) applied to clinical and consumer-generated texts. METHODS We included any application or methodological publication that leverages text to facilitate healthcare and address the health-related needs of consumers and populations. RESULTS Many important developments in clinical text processing, both...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To determine proof of concept of a mobile health (mHealth) intervention delivering text messages (texts) to self-manage among patients prescribed oral anticancer agents (OAs) and to examine preliminary efficacy on symptoms and medication adherence. DESIGN A longitudinal randomized, controlled trial. SETTING Two community cancer centers in the midwestern United States and ...

BACKGROUND Caregivers' oral health literacy (OHL) assessment results have been found to be related to their children's oral health status. A further aspect of this relationship may be the role of caregivers' reading habits. OBJECTIVE Our goal was to describe the relationship between caregivers' multimodal (digital and print) and multilingual (English and Chinese) reading habits, their OHL, an...

Objective: To explore how content analysis can be used together with linking rules to link texts on assessment and intervention to the International Classification of Functioning , Disability and Health – version for children and youth (ICF-CY). Methods: Individual habilitation plans containing texts on assessment and intervention for children with disabilities and their families were linked to...

Lord Shaftesbury's Lunacy Commission. Previous government attempts to introduce rate funded district asylums in Scotland, like those of the 1808 English County Asylums Act, had also been resoundingly defeated on a localist agenda. Andrews pauses briefly over the 1855-57 Scottish Lunacy Commission inquiry which led to legislation and the establishment of a full-time Lunacy Commission. This was i...

The Brazilian Dentistry Code of Ethics (DCE), Resolution CFO-71 from May 2006, is an instrument created to guide dentists' behavior in relation to the ethical aspects of professional practice. The purpose of the study is to analyze the above mentioned code comparing the deontological and bioethical focuses. In order to do so, an interpretative analysis of the code and of twelve selected texts w...

OBJECTIVE To explore how content analysis can be used together with linking rules to link texts on assessment and intervention to the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health - version for children and youth (ICF-CY). METHODS Individual habilitation plans containing texts on assessment and intervention for children with disabilities and their families were linked to ...