Hospital-Based Medicine

Prediction of Nursing Workload in Hospital.

A dissertation project at the Witten/Herdecke University [1] is investigating which (nursing sensiti...

Predicting Risk of 30-Day Readmissions Using Two Emerging Machine Learning Methods.

Decades-long research efforts have shown that Heart Failure (HF) is the most expensive diagnosis for...

EHR Text Categorization for Enhanced Patient-Based Document Navigation.

Patients with multiple disorders usually have long diagnosis lists, constitute by ICD-10 codes toget...

Estimating a Bias in ICD Encodings for Billing Purposes.

ICD encoded diagnoses are a popular criterion for eligibility algorithms for study cohort recruitmen...

Comparison of Machine Learning Algorithms for the Prediction of Preventable Hospital Readmissions.

A diverse universe of statistical models in the literature aim to help hospitals understand the risk...

Chronic Kidney Disease: Detection and Evaluation.

Chronic kidney disease affects 47 million people in the United States and is associated with signifi...

Percutaneous kyphoplasty versus posterior spinal fixation with vertebroplasty for treatment of Kümmell disease: A case-control study with minimal 2-year follow-up.

This is a retrospective case-control study.The aim of this study was to compare the surgical results...

Clinical evaluation of improved MyoSure hysteroscopic tissue removal system for the resection of type II submucosal myomas.

This study aims to determine whether clinical evaluation of improved MyoSure hysteroscopic tissue re...

The dose-response association between estimated glomerular filtration rate and prognosis of patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction from rural areas of China's Liaoning province.

We aimed to investigate the dose-response associations between chronic kidney disease (CKD), and sho...

Risk Factors for Elevated Preoperative Alkaline Phosphatase in Patients with Refractory Secondary Hyperparathyroidism.

Elevated preoperative levels of alkaline phosphatase (ALP) in patients with refractory secondary hyp...

Incorporation of Anterior Lumbosacral Spine Exposure into a General Surgical Practice.

Many spine surgeons enlist the aid of an "access surgeon" to provide anterior exposure of the lumbos...

Incidence and outcomes of neonatal acute kidney injury (AWAKEN): a multicentre, multinational, observational cohort study.

BACKGROUND: Single-center studies suggest that neonatal acute kidney injury (AKI) is associated with...

[A Case of Infectious Pseudoaneurysm That Developed after Surgery for Local Recurrence of Rectal Cancer].

In February 2011, a male patient in his 60's underwent a low anterior resection and lateral lymph no...

Comparison of intraoperative basal fluid requirements in distal pancreatectomy: Laparotomy vs. laparoscopy: A retrospective cohort study.

There has been recent progress in intraoperative fluid therapy. However, little is known about intra...

Artificial neural network for prediction of in-hospital mortality after open repair of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm.

Establishing a Classification System for High Fall-Risk Among Inpatients Using Support Vector Machines.

We constructed a model using a support vector machine to determine whether an inpatient will suffer ...

Artificial Intelligence in Precision Cardiovascular Medicine.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a field of computer science that aims to mimic human thought process...

Revisions for screw malposition and clinical outcomes after robot-guided lumbar fusion for spondylolisthesis.

OBJECTIVE The accuracy of robot-guided pedicle screw placement has been proven to be high, but littl...

Computer-Assisted Decision Support for Student Admissions Based on Their Predicted Academic Performance.

To develop predictive computational models forecasting the academic performance of students in the ...

A Novel Model for Predicting Rehospitalization Risk Incorporating Physical Function, Cognitive Status, and Psychosocial Support Using Natural Language Processing.

BACKGROUND: With the increasing focus on reducing hospital readmissions in the United States, numero...

An artificial neural network prediction model of congenital heart disease based on risk factors: A hospital-based case-control study.

An artificial neural network (ANN) model was developed to predict the risks of congenital heart dise...