Surveillance

Comparison of prostate cancer detection rates between magnetic resonance imaging-targeted biopsy and transrectal ultrasound-guided biopsy according to Prostate Imaging Reporting and Data System in patients with PSA ≥4 ng/mL: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

BACKGROUND: Previous studies have investigated magnetic resonance imaging-targeted biopsy (MRI-TBx) on the detection for prostate cancer (PCa). Prostate Imaging Reporting and Data System (PI-RADS), as a standardized MRI reporting system, has widely been used in the management of PCa. However, basing the PI-RADS score, the comparability between MRI-TBx and transrectal ultrasound-guided biopsy (TRUS...

Applying Natural Language Processing to Evaluate News Media Coverage of Bullying and Cyberbullying.

Bullying events have frequently been the focus of coverage by news media, including news stories about teens whose death from suicide was attributed to cyberbullying. Previous work has shown that news media coverage is influential to readers in areas such as suicide, infectious disease outbreaks, and tobacco use. News media may be an untapped resource to promote bullying prevention messages, thoug...

Transparent Reporting on Research Using Unstructured Electronic Health Record Data to Generate 'Real World' Evidence of Comparative Effectiveness and Safety.

Research that makes secondary use of administrative and clinical healthcare databases is increasingly influential for regulatory, reimbursement, and o...

[An overview of validation methods based on the medical claims database].

Medical claims database is an important source of data for studying the characteristics, and burden of diseases, to provide a basis for the developmen...

Enabling Data-Driven Clinical Quality Assurance: Predicting Adverse Event Reporting in Clinical Trials Using Machine Learning.

INTRODUCTION: Adverse event (AE) under-reporting has been a recurrent issue raised during health authorities Good Clinical Practices (GCP) inspections...

IDOMEN: An Extension of Infectious Disease Ontology for MENingitis.

In sub-Saharan African countries the prevention and control of epidemic diseases requires the improvement of the surveillance system for these disease...

A New Approach to Compare the Performance of Two Classification Methods of Causes of Death for Timely Surveillance in France.

Timely mortality surveillance in France is based on the monitoring of electronic death certificates to provide information to health authorities. This...

Signals Among Signals: Prioritizing Nongenetic Associations in Massive Data Sets.

Massive data sets are often regarded as a panacea to the underpowered studies of the past. At the same time, it is becoming clear that in many of thes...

A Deep Learning-Based Decision Support Tool for Precision Risk Assessment of Breast Cancer.

PURPOSE: The Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS) lexicon was developed to standardize mammographic reporting to assess cancer risk and ...

Determinants of In-Hospital Mortality After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: A Machine Learning Approach.

Background The ability to accurately predict the occurrence of in-hospital death after percutaneous coronary intervention is important for clinical de...

Real-time Epidemic Forecasting: Challenges and Opportunities.

Infectious disease outbreaks play an important role in global morbidity and mortality. Real-time epidemic forecasting provides an opportunity to predi...

A Dual-Accelerometer System for Classifying Physical Activity in Children and Adults.

INTRODUCTION: Accurately monitoring 24-h movement behaviors is a vital step for progressing the time-use epidemiology field. Past accelerometer-based ...

Phylogenomics and Infectious Potential of Avian Avulaviruses Species-Type 1 Isolated from Healthy Green-Winged Teal () from a Wetland Sanctuary of Indus River.

Given the importance of (AAvVs) in commercial poultry, continuous monitoring and surveillance in natural reservoirs (waterfowls) is imperative. Here,...

Predicting reservoir hosts and arthropod vectors from evolutionary signatures in RNA virus genomes.

Identifying the animal origins of RNA viruses requires years of field and laboratory studies that stall responses to emerging infectious diseases. Usi...

Distribution of main Gram-positive pathogens causing bloodstream infections in United States and European hospitals during the SENTRY Antimicrobial Surveillance Program (2010-2016): concomitant analysis of oritavancin in vitro activity.

This study updates the distribution and trends of Gram-positive organisms causing bloodstream infections (BSIs) in the United States (US) and Europe d...

pBRIT: gene prioritization by correlating functional and phenotypic annotations through integrative data fusion.

MOTIVATION: Computational gene prioritization can aid in disease gene identification. Here, we propose pBRIT (prioritization using Bayesian Ridge regr...

Barriers to staff reporting adverse incidents in NHS hospitals.

Our study assessed barriers to reporting adverse incidents (AIs). Adverse incident reporting (AIR), although it is a pillar of risk management, has a ...

Data-Adaptive Estimation for Double-Robust Methods in Population-Based Cancer Epidemiology: Risk Differences for Lung Cancer Mortality by Emergency Presentation.

In this paper, we propose a structural framework for population-based cancer epidemiology and evaluate the performance of double-robust estimators for...

Machine Learning for Healthcare: On the Verge of a Major Shift in Healthcare Epidemiology.

The increasing availability of electronic health data presents a major opportunity in healthcare for both discovery and practical applications to impr...

Mining e-cigarette adverse events in social media using Bi-LSTM recurrent neural network with word embedding representation.

OBJECTIVE: Recent years have seen increased worldwide popularity of e-cigarette use. However, the risks of e-cigarettes are underexamined. Most e-ciga...