Hospitalists

An intelligent algorithm for optimizing emergency department job and patient satisfaction.

Purpose Resilience engineering, job satisfaction and patient satisfaction were evaluated and analyzed in one Tehran emergency department (ED) to determine ED strengths, weaknesses and opportunities to improve safety, performance, staff and patient satisfaction. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach The algorithm included data envelopment analysis (DEA), two artificial...

Effect of intraoperative mannitol administration on acute kidney injury after robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy: A propensity score matching analysis.

Mannitol, an osmotic diuretic, has been used to prevent acute kidney injury (AKI). However, studies have found divergent effects of intraoperative mannitol administration on postoperative AKI. We therefore evaluated the effects of intraoperative mannitol administration on AKI after robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (RALP) in prostate cancer patients.A total of 864 patients who unde...

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 factors of their preventable readmissions. Howeve...

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 hospitalizations and the most frequent diagnosis ...

Predictive Factors for Post-Ischemic Compartment Syndrome in Non-Traumatic Acute Limb Ischemia in a Lower Extremity.

: Compartment syndrome (CS) is serious complication following revascularization of acute limb ischemia (ALI). However, predictive factors associated w...

Machine Learning for Predicting Outcomes in Trauma.

To date, there are no reviews on machine learning (ML) for predicting outcomes in trauma. Consequently, it remains unclear as to how ML-based predicti...

[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 node dissection for lower rectal cancer. Due to larg...

Learning the Personalized Intransitive Preferences of Images.

Most of the previous studies on the user preferences assume that there is a personal transitive preference ranking of the consumable media like images...

Community-Acquired Pneumonia Case Validation in an Anonymized Electronic Medical Record-Linked Expert System.

An electronic anonymized patient portal analysis using radiographic reports and admission and discharge diagnoses had sensitivity, specificity, positi...

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 didactic-rich portion of a doctor of pharmacy (Pha...

Automatic epileptic seizure detection in EEGs using MF-DFA, SVM based on cloud computing.

BACKGROUND: Epilepsy is a chronic disease with transient brain dysfunction that results from the sudden abnormal discharge of neurons in the brain. Si...

From Patient Discharge Summaries to an Ontology for Psychiatry.

Psychiatry aims at detecting symptoms, providing diagnoses and treating mental disorders. We developed ONTOPSYCHIA, an ontology for psychiatry in thre...

Effect of Hypertonic Saline 5% on Early Graft Function and Urinary Interleukin 18 and Neutrophil Gelatinase-Associated Lipocalin in Deceased-Donor Kidney Transplantation.

Ischemia reperfusion injury (IRI) is one of the main causes of delayed graft function (DGF) in deceased-donor kidney transplantation (DDKT). Evidences...

Antiphospholipid Syndrome with Antiβ2glicoprotein-1 Antibodies as the Cause of Recurrent Tibial Vein Thrombosis in SAPHO syndrome.

The antiphospholipid antibody syndrome is defined by the presence of antiphospholipid antibodies in patients with recurrent venous or arterial thrombo...

[A Case of Carcinoma Associated with an Anal Fistula Repaired Using a Hatchet Flap after Neoadjuvant Chemoradiotherapy].

The patient was a 53-year-old man who complained of perianal pain. He had a 20-year history of an anal fistula. There was a 10 cm tumor with mucin-lik...

Improving Prediction of Suicide and Accidental Death After Discharge From General Hospitals With Natural Language Processing.

IMPORTANCE: Suicide represents the 10th leading cause of death across age groups in the United States (12.6 cases per 100 000) and remains challenging...

Natural Language Processing to Assess Documentation of Features of Critical Illness in Discharge Documents of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Survivors.

RATIONALE: Transitions to outpatient care are crucial after critical illness, but the documentation practices in discharge documents after critical il...

Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia: Comparing Cadaveric Liver Transplant and Non-Transplant Surgical Patients.

Ventilator-associated pneumonia is a frequent complication in intensive care surgical patients, particularly those with high severity scores on admiss...

Visualizing patient journals by combining vital signs monitoring and natural language processing.

This paper presents a data-driven approach to graphically presenting text-based patient journals while still maintaining all textual information. The ...

The effects of deep network topology on mortality prediction.

Deep learning has achieved remarkable results in the areas of computer vision, speech recognition, natural language processing and most recently, even...