Supporting self-management with an internet intervention for low back pain in primary care: a RCT (SupportBack 2) by Adam W A Geraghty, Taeko Becque, Lisa C Roberts, Jonathan Hill, Nadine E Foster, Lucy Yardley, Beth Stuart, David A Turner, Gareth Griffiths, Frances Webley, Lorraine Durcan, Alannah Morgan, Stephanie Hughes, Sarah Bathers, Stephanie Butler-Walley, Simon Wathall, Gemma Mansell, Malcolm White, Firoza Davies, Paul Little

“…Plain language summary Low back pain is very common; most people will experience it at some point in their lives. …”
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An artificial intelligence platform for predicting postoperative complications in metastatic spinal surgery: development and validation study by Weihao Jiang, Juan Zhang, Weiqing Shi, Xuyong Cao, Xiongwei Zhao, Bin Zhang, Haikuan Yu, Shengjie Wang, Yong Qin, Mingxing Lei, Yuncen Cao, Boyu Zhu, Yaosheng Liu

“…This predictive tool can assist healthcare professionals in making informed clinical decisions, ultimately improving patient outcomes and optimizing resource use. …”
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From Misinformation to Insight: Machine Learning Strategies for Fake News Detection by Despoina Mouratidis, Andreas Kanavos, Katia Kermanidis

“…We rigorously evaluate a diverse set of detection models across multiple content types, including social media posts, news articles, and user-generated comments. …”
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Linguistic Markers of Pain Communication on X (Formerly Twitter) in US States With High and Low Opioid Mortality: Machine Learning and Semantic Network Analysis by ShinYe Kim, Winson Fu Zun Yang, Zishan Jiwani, Emily Hamm, Shreya Singh

“…MethodsWe collected 1,438,644 pain-related tweets posted between January and December 2021 using tweepy and snscrape. …”
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