JBI Evidence Synthesis - Issue 12
The final issue for 2024 has been released!
The latest issue of JBI Evidence Synthesis is out now. This final issue for the year brings the journal’s total to an impressive 2,653 pages published for 2024!
This issue kicks off with an editorial exploring the challenges of using artificial intelligence (AI) models in healthcare settings, highlighting the importance of ensuring that AI models consistently perform at a high standard to support safe clinical decision-making without increasing risks to patients.
The editorial accompanies a new scoping review, which aims to provide an overview of the diverse methods described, tested, or implemented to monitor the performance of the artificial intelligence systems in a clinical setting, highlighting arguments for and against these methods.
The second evidence synthesis in the latest issue is a qualitative systematic review, which explores the experiences of adult patients living with depression-related insomnia - a condition affecting 80% to 90% of patients with depression. It examines how they experience both pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions aimed at improving sleep.
The final review is a scoping review examining how occupational therapists use the natural/outdoor environment in their practice within mental healthcare services. With research highlighting the link between human health and the natural environment, occupational therapists are uniquely positioned to integrate the natural environment into assessments and interventions as part of their approach to health care.
The December issue of JBI Evidence Synthesis also includes various protocols, such as scoping review protocol, Artificial intelligence applied in human health technology assessment
Some other protocols in the latest issue include:
Go to the full table of contents for the complete list of content in Issue 12.