The Journal of bone and joint surgery. American volume
Jun 16, 2021
BACKGROUND: Despite previous reports of improvements for athletes following hip arthroscopy for femoroacetabular impingement syndrome (FAIS), many do not achieve clinically relevant outcomes. The purpose of this study was to develop machine learning ...
The Journal of bone and joint surgery. American volume
Mar 17, 2021
BACKGROUND: Risk stratification of individual patients who are prone to infection would allow surgeons to monitor high-risk patients more closely and intervene early when needed. This could reduce infection-related consequences such as increased heal...
The Journal of bone and joint surgery. American volume
Jan 6, 2021
BACKGROUND: Understanding the interactions between variables that predict prolonged hospital length of stay (LOS) following spine surgery can help uncover drivers of this risk in patients. This study utilized a novel game-theory-based approach to dev...
The Journal of bone and joint surgery. American volume
Jul 1, 2020
BACKGROUND: The detection of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases remains a huge challenge. As of April 22, 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to take its toll, with >2.6 million confirmed infections and >183,000 deaths. Dire projections are ...
The Journal of bone and joint surgery. American volume
May 6, 2020
➤. Artificial intelligence (AI) provides machines with the ability to perform tasks using algorithms governed by pattern recognition and self-correction on large amounts of data to narrow options in order to avoid errors. ➤. The 4 things necessary fo...
The Journal of bone and joint surgery. American volume
Dec 18, 2019
BACKGROUND: The identification of surgical site infections for infection surveillance in hospitals depends on the manual abstraction of medical records and, for research purposes, depends mainly on the use of administrative or claims data. The object...
The Journal of bone and joint surgery. American volume
Dec 4, 2019
BACKGROUND: With the emergence of competency-based training, the current evaluation scheme of surgical skills is evolving to include newer methods of assessment and training. Artificial intelligence through machine learning algorithms can utilize ext...
The Journal of bone and joint surgery. American volume
Nov 6, 2019
BACKGROUND: Manual chart review is labor-intensive and requires specialized knowledge possessed by highly trained medical professionals. Natural language processing (NLP) tools are distinctive in their ability to extract critical information from raw...