Public Health & Policy

Automatically Identifying Topics of Consumer Health Questions in Chinese.

In health question answering (QA) system development, question topic identification is crucial to understand users' information needs and further facilitate answer extraction. This paper presented a machine-learning method to automatically identify topics of health related questions in Chinese asked by the general public. We collected 2000 questions from Chinese consumer health website, and charac...

Active Surveillance Use Among a Low-risk Prostate Cancer Population in a Large US Payer System: 17-Gene Genomic Prostate Score Versus Other Risk Stratification Methods.

Many men with low-risk prostate cancer (PCa) receive definitive treatment despite recommendations that have been informed by two large, randomized trials encouraging active surveillance (AS). We conducted a retrospective cohort study using the Optum™ Research Database (Eden Prairie, MN) of electronic health records and administrative claims data to assess AS use for patients tested with a 17-gene ...

NT-proBNP Predicts All-Cause Mortality in a Population of Insurance Applicants, Follow-up Analysis and Further Observations.

OBJECTIVE: - Further refine the independent value of NT-proBNP, accounting for the impact of other test results, in predicting all-cause mortality for...

Digital Pharmacovigilance and Disease Surveillance: Combining Traditional and Big-Data Systems for Better Public Health.

The digital revolution has contributed to very large data sets (ie, big data) relevant for public health. The two major data sources are electronic he...

Classification of Helpful Comments on Online Suicide Watch Forums.

Among social media websites, Reddit has emerged as a widely used online message board for focused mental health topics including depression, addiction...

Evaluation of a Technology-Based Adaptive Learning and Prevention Program for Stress Response-A Randomized Controlled Trial.

To prevent deployment-related disorders, Chaos Driven Situations Management Retrieval System (CHARLY), a computer-aided training platform with a biofe...

Objective Assessment of Physical Activity: Classifiers for Public Health.

PURPOSE: Walking for health is recommended by health agencies, partly based on epidemiological studies of self-reported behaviors. Accelerometers are ...

Major accident prevention through applying safety knowledge management approach.

OBJECTIVE: Many scattered resources of knowledge are available to use for chemical accident prevention purposes. The common approach to management pro...

A Supervised Learning Process to Validate Online Disease Reports for Use in Predictive Models.

Pathogen distribution models that predict spatial variation in disease occurrence require data from a large number of geographic locations to generate...

Understanding Emergency Department 72-Hour Revisits Among Medicaid Patients Using Electronic Healthcare Records.

Electronic Healthcare Records (EHRs) have the potential to improve healthcare quality and to decrease costs by providing quality metrics, discovering ...

Efficacy and Safety Evaluation on Arterial Thrombolysis in Treating Acute Cerebral Infarction.

The objective of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of intra-arterial thrombolysis in treating acute cerebral infarction and further d...

The drug prescription network: a system-level view of drug co-prescription in community-dwelling elderly people.

Networks are well suited to display and analyze complex systems that consist of numerous and interlinked elements. This study aimed at: (1) generating...

A new approach for cleansing geographical dataset using Levenshtein distance, prior knowledge and contextual information.

Epidemiological studies are necessary to take public health decisions. Their relevance depends on the quality of data. Doctors in continuous care coll...

Development of an Adolescent Depression Ontology for Analyzing Social Data.

Depression in adolescence is associated with significant suicidality. Therefore, it is important to detect the risk for depression and provide timely ...

Fool-proofing design and crisis management for customized intelligent physical fitness and healthcare system.

In recent years, it is quite important to develop a customized system which can enhance physical fitness and health for people. And the system reliabi...

Classification of older adults with/without a fall history using machine learning methods.

Falling is a serious problem in an aged society such that assessment of the risk of falls for individuals is imperative for the research and practice ...

Etiology and pathology of epidemic outbreaks of avian influenza H5N1 infection in Egyptian chicken farms.

Epidemic outbreaks of avian influenza (AI) virus H5N1 have been frequently reported in Egypt during the last nine years. Here we investigate the invol...