Objectives: The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is striving to provide their populations with quality healthcare. The challenge for MENA countries is aggravated by the scarcity of health-related cost data which strains their health systems and puts pressure on decision-makers to...

Background: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a major health concern among children with the widespread adoption of advanced technologies. However, concerns are growing about the transparency, replicability, biasedness, and overall validity of artificial intelligence studies in medicine. Objective: We...

Medical devices and pharmaceuticals are worlds apart, but healthcare would be impossible without them. Digital biomarkers are the subject of this thesis defined as objective, measurable, physiological, and behavioural parameters collected using wearable, portable, implantable, or digestible...

Purpose: Antibacterial envelopes have been demonstrated to be therapeutically helpful in patients with Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices (CIEDs). We examined the methodological and evidence synthesis quality of meta-analyses evaluating the effect of envelopes to reduce CIED infections....

Introduction: A rising number of systematic reviews of smartwatch clinical effectiveness have been published; however, the findings are conflicting and need further investigation. Our purpose was to assess the methodological and evidence synthesis quality of meta-analyses of the therapeutic...

Purpose This study aims to investigate the characteristics, as well as the purpose and posts of the COVID-19 Facebook groups. Design/methodology/approach A systematic search for COVID-19 Facebook groups was conducted on June 1, 2020. Characteristics of the groups were examined using descriptive...