Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Jun 12, 2021
OBJECTIVE: Reticular pseudodrusen (RPD), a key feature of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), are poorly detected by human experts on standard color fundus photography (CFP) and typically require advanced imaging modalities such as fundus autoflu...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Jun 12, 2021
OBJECTIVE: Access to palliative care (PC) is important for many patients with uncontrolled symptom burden from serious or complex illness. However, many patients who could benefit from PC do not receive it early enough or at all. We sought to address...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Jun 12, 2021
OBJECTIVE: The spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has led to severe strain on hospital capacity in many countries. We aim to develop a model helping planners assess expected COVID-19 hospital resource utilization based on individual patien...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Jun 12, 2021
OBJECTIVE: Being able to predict a patient's life expectancy can help doctors and patients prioritize treatments and supportive care. For predicting life expectancy, physicians have been shown to outperform traditional models that use only a few pred...
Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is the most common and fatal nosocomial infection in intensive care units (ICUs). Existing methods for identifying VAP display low accuracy, and their use may delay antimicrobial therapy. VAP diagnostics derived ...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jun 4, 2021
This paper investigates the philosophical and designerly questions of how the concepts of familiarity, orientation, and habituation can be used to understand a self-moving (semi-autonomous robot) table at home. Tables are familiar habituated objects ...
OBJECTIVES: Patient feedback is critical to identify and resolve patient safety and experience issues in healthcare systems. However, large volumes of unstructured text data can pose problems for manual (human) analysis. This study reports the result...
Zhonghua wai ke za zhi [Chinese journal of surgery]
Jun 1, 2021
To examine a new technique of robot-assisted nephroureterectomy without robot reldocking or patient repositioning. Patients diagnosed as upper tract urothelial carcinoma treated with this modality between November 2015 and January 2019 at Departmen...
IMPORTANCE: Accurate prediction of adverse outcomes after acute myocardial infarction (AMI) can guide the triage of care services and shared decision-making, and novel methods hold promise for using existing data to generate additional insights.
OBJECTIVE: The paraspinal muscles have been extensively studied on axial lumbar magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for better understanding of back pain; however, the acquisition of measurements mainly relies on manual segmentation, which is time consu...
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