Surveillance

Identifying Falls Risk Screenings Not Documented with Administrative Codes Using Natural Language Processing.

Quality reporting that relies on coded administrative data alone may not completely and accurately d...

Electronic Surveillance For Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection Using Natural Language Processing.

Catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) is a common and costly healthcare-associated inf...

Detecting Opioid-Related Aberrant Behavior using Natural Language Processing.

The United States is in the midst of a prescription opioid epidemic, with the number of yearly opioi...

Detecting Evidence of Intra-abdominal Surgical Site Infections from Radiology Reports Using Natural Language Processing.

Free-text reports in electronic health records (EHRs) contain medically significant information - si...

An ontological approach to identifying cases of chronic kidney disease from routine primary care data: a cross-sectional study.

BACKGROUND: Accurately identifying cases of chronic kidney disease (CKD) from primary care data faci...

Automated video surveillance and machine learning: Leveraging existing infrastructure for cardiac arrest detection and emergency response activation.

Machine learning for the meta-analyses of microbial pathogens' volatile signatures.

Non-invasive and fast diagnostic tools based on volatolomics hold great promise in the control of in...

Application of Neural Networks for classification of Patau, Edwards, Down, Turner and Klinefelter Syndrome based on first trimester maternal serum screening data, ultrasonographic findings and patient demographics.

BACKGROUND: The usage of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) for genome-enabled classifications and es...

A review of influenza detection and prediction through social networking sites.

Early prediction of seasonal epidemics such as influenza may reduce their impact in daily lives. Now...

MIRO: guidelines for minimum information for the reporting of an ontology.

BACKGROUND: Creation and use of ontologies has become a mainstream activity in many disciplines, in ...

Methodologic Guide for Evaluating Clinical Performance and Effect of Artificial Intelligence Technology for Medical Diagnosis and Prediction.

The use of artificial intelligence in medicine is currently an issue of great interest, especially w...

Cockcroft-Gault, Modification of Diet in Renal Disease, and Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration equations for estimating glomerular filtration rates in cancer patients receiving cisplatin-based chemotherapy.

BACKGROUND: Although the Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration (CKD-EPI) equation has be...

Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) seroprevalence and current epidemiology in England and Wales.

INTRODUCTION: The implementation of the Hib conjugate vaccine in the United Kingdom in 1992 resulted...

In vitro activity of eravacycline against 2213 Gram-negative and 2424 Gram-positive bacterial pathogens isolated in Canadian hospital laboratories: CANWARD surveillance study 2014-2015.

Gram-negative (n=2213) and Gram-positive (n=2424) pathogens isolated from patients in 13 Canadian ho...

Pathologic Outcomes of Candidates for Active Surveillance Undergoing Radical Prostatectomy: Results from a Contemporary Turkish Patient Cohort.

INTRODUCTION: To evaluate the pathological outcomes of Turkish men meeting the criteria for Active S...

Avian influenza overview September - November 2017.

Between 1 September and 15 November 2017, 48 A(H5N8) highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) outbre...

[Surveillance of Sensitivity to Penicillin in streptococcus Agalactiae recovered from pregnant women between 35-37 weeks of gestation].

Streptococcus agalactiae (GBS) cause severe infections in newborns under three months. Meningitis, p...

Big Data in Public Health: Terminology, Machine Learning, and Privacy.

The digital world is generating data at a staggering and still increasing rate. While these "big dat...

E-Cigarette Surveillance With Social Media Data: Social Bots, Emerging Topics, and Trends.

BACKGROUND: As e-cigarette use rapidly increases in popularity, data from online social systems (Twi...

Evaluating Automatic Methods to Extract Patients' Supplement Use from Clinical Reports.

The widespread prevalence of dietary supplements has drawn extensive attention due to the safety and...

Surveillance of iclaprim activity: In vitro susceptibility of gram-positive pathogens collected from 2012 to 2014 from the United States, Asia Pacific, Latin American and Europe.

Iclaprim is a diaminopyrimidine, which inhibits bacterial dihydrofolate reductase, and it is highly ...