The American journal of emergency medicine
Aug 28, 2020
STUDY OBJECTIVE: Topic identification can facilitate knowledge curation, discover thematic relationships, trends, and predict future direction. We aimed to determine through an unsupervised, machine learning approach to topic modeling the most common...
The American journal of emergency medicine
Jul 18, 2020
INTRODUCTION: The opioid epidemic has altered normative clinical perceptions on addressing both acute and chronic pain, particularly within the Emergency Department (ED) setting, where providers are now confronted with balancing pain management and p...
The American journal of emergency medicine
Mar 10, 2020
BACKGROUND: Low-acuity outpatients constitute the majority of emergency department (ED) patients, and these patients often experience an unpredictable length of stay (LOS). Effective LOS prediction might improve the quality of ED care and reduce ED c...
The American journal of emergency medicine
Apr 7, 2019
BACKGROUND: Automated surveillance for cardiac arrests would be useful in overcrowded emergency departments. The purpose of this study is to develop and test artificial neural network (ANN) classifiers for early detection of patients at risk of cardi...
The American journal of emergency medicine
Jun 28, 2018
OBJECTIVE: The prediction of emergency department (ED) disposition at triage remains challenging. Machine learning approaches may enhance prediction. We compared the performance of several machine learning approaches for predicting two clinical outco...