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Background: Halitosis, characterized by an undesirable mouth odor, represents a common concern., Objective: This study aims to assess the quality and readability of web-based Arabic health information on halitosis as the internet is becoming a prominent global source of medical information., Methods: A total of 300 Arabic websites were retrieved from Google using 3 commonly used phrases for halitosis in Arabic. The quality of the websites was assessed using benchmark criteria established by the Journal of the American Medical Association, the DISCERN tool, and the presence of the Health on the Net Foundation Code of Conduct (HONcode). The assessment of readability (Flesch Reading Ease [FRE], Simple Measure of Gobbledygook, and Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level [FKGL]) was conducted using web-based readability indexes., Results: A total of 127 websites were examined. Regarding quality assessment, 87.4% (n=111) of websites failed to fulfill any Journal of the American Medical Association requirements, highlighting a lack of authorship (authors' contributions), attribution (references), disclosure (sponsorship), and currency (publication date). The DISCERN tool had a mean score of 34.55 (SD 7.46), with the majority (n=72, 56.6%) rated as moderate quality, 43.3% (n=55) as having a low score, and none receiving a high DISCERN score, indicating a general inadequacy in providing quality health information to make decisions and treatment choices. No website had HONcode certification, emphasizing the concern over the credibility and trustworthiness of these resources. Regarding readability assessment, Arabic halitosis websites had high readability scores, with 90.5% (n=115) receiving an FRE score ≥80, 98.4% (n=125) receiving a Simple Measure of Gobbledygook score <7, and 67.7% (n=86) receiving an FKGL score <7. There were significant correlations between the DISCERN scores and the quantity of words (P<.001) and sentences (P<.001) on the websites. Additionally, there was a significant relationship (P<.001) between the number of sentences and FKGL and FRE scores., Conclusions: While readability was found to be very good, indicating that the information is accessible to the public, the quality of Arabic halitosis websites was poor, reflecting a significant gap in providing reliable and comprehensive health information. This highlights the need for improving the availability of high-quality materials to ensure Arabic-speaking populations have access to reliable information about halitosis and its treatment options, tying quality and availability together as critical for effective health communication., (©Khalid Aboalshamat. Originally published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (https://www.jmir.org), 28.08.2024.) more...

The protection of privacy of patient that is applying for medical care, diagnostics and treatment is one of the main pillars of implementation of medical activities. However, despite sufficient volume of legal regulation of lifetime respect of privacy of examination, observation and facts of medical intervention, in practice occur situations when privacy ceases to be such after death of the patient. The article is based on results of content-analysis of normative legal acts (n = 11), scientific publications (n = 52), cases of judicial practice (n = 8). The problem of non-observance of privacy becomes especially actual after death of person whose name is widely known. Having no possibility to impact on causes and modes of obtaining and propagating such specific information, the deceased, one's illness, stages of treatment, struggle for life, resources spent, clinics and specialists involved become object of close attention of various subjects (mas media, Internet communities) that use obtained information for speculative purposes at the expense of fixation of inhumane public replicas and increase of number of browsing. Despite prohibition provided for by law of dissemination of information constituting privacy of applying for medical care, after death of patient and application of measures of legal liability for fact of such a disclosure, information leak occurs regularly and information that got into common access frequently discredit good name of the deceased or develop other problems that are subjects to legal protection, for family members and legal successors. Yet, circumstances of transfer of information of limited access by medical organization (data leakage) or by intent of medical worker are difficult to be proved. Therefore, in judicial practice there are practically no such cases. At that, after death of famous people, juristic community regularly faces problems of protecting personal rights and non-material values from the side of relatives, legal successors and other interested persons. On the basis of formal logical method and system analysis method of disputable situations, possible perspectives of applying for judicial protection, procedural characteristics of procedure of applying for protection and possible composition of participants are presented. more...

Object information significantly affects the performance of visual tracking. However, it is difficult to obtain accurate target foreground information because of the existence of challenging scenarios, such as occlusion, background clutter, drastic change of appearance, and so forth. Traditional correlation filter methods roughly use linear interpolation to update the model, which may lead to the introduction of noise and the loss of reliable target information, resulting in the degradation of tracking performance. In this paper, we propose a novel robust visual tracking framework with reliable object information and Kalman filter (KF). Firstly, we analyze the reliability of the tracking process, calculate the confidence of the target information at the current estimated location, and determine whether it is necessary to carry out the online training and update step. Secondly, we also model the target motion between frames with a KF module, and use it to supplement the correlation filter estimation. Finally, in order to keep the most reliable target information of the first frame in the whole tracking process, we propose a new online training method, which can improve the robustness of the tracker. Extensive experiments on several benchmarks demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of our proposed method, and our method achieves a comparable or better performance compared with several other state-of-the-art trackers. more...