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Extracting social determinants of health from inpatient electronic medical records using natural language processing.

Journal of epidemiology and population health
BACKGROUND: Social determinants of health (SDOH) have been shown to be important predictors of health outcomes. Here we developed methods to extract them from inpatient electronic medical record (EMR) data using techniques compatible with current EMR...

Clinical and socioeconomic predictors of hospital use and emergency department visits among children with medical complexity: A machine learning approach using administrative data.

PloS one
OBJECTIVES: The primary objective of this study was to identify clinical and socioeconomic predictors of hospital and ED use among children with medical complexity within 1 and 5 years of an initial discharge between 2010 and 2013. A secondary object...

Evaluating spatially enabled machine learning approaches to depth to bedrock mapping, Alberta, Canada.

PloS one
Maps showing the thickness of sediments above the bedrock (depth to bedrock, or DTB) are important for many geoscience studies and are necessary for many hydrogeological, engineering, mining, and forestry applications. However, it can be difficult to...

Clinical evaluation of a deep-learning model for automatic scoring of the Alberta stroke program early CT score on non-contrast CT.

Journal of neurointerventional surgery
BACKGROUND: Automated measurement of the Alberta Stroke Program Early Computed Tomography Score (ASPECTS) can support clinical decision making. Based on a deep learning algorithm, we developed an automated ASPECTS scoring system (Heuron ASPECTS) and ...

DGA3-Net: A parameter-efficient deep learning model for ASPECTS assessment for acute ischemic stroke using non-contrast computed tomography.

NeuroImage. Clinical
Detecting the early signs of stroke using non-contrast computerized tomography (NCCT) is essential for the diagnosis of acute ischemic stroke (AIS). However, the hypoattenuation in NCCT is difficult to precisely identify, and accurate assessments of ...

Deep Learning-Based Recurrent Delirium Prediction in Critically Ill Patients.

Critical care medicine
OBJECTIVES: To predict impending delirium in ICU patients using recurrent deep learning.

Validating administrative data to identify complex surgical site infections following cardiac implantable electronic device implantation: a comparison of traditional methods and machine learning.

Antimicrobial resistance and infection control
BACKGROUND: Cardiac implantable electronic device (CIED) surgical site infections (SSIs) have been outpacing the increases in implantation of these devices. While traditional surveillance of these SSIs by infection prevention and control would likely...

Developing EMR-based algorithms to Identify hospital adverse events for health system performance evaluation and improvement: Study protocol.

PloS one
BACKGROUND: Measurement of care quality and safety mainly relies on abstracted administrative data. However, it is well studied that administrative data-based adverse event (AE) detection methods are suboptimal due to lack of clinical information. El...

Deep learning derived automated ASPECTS on non-contrast CT scans of acute ischemic stroke patients.

Human brain mapping
Ischemic stroke is the most common type of stroke, ranked as the second leading cause of death worldwide. The Alberta Stroke Program Early CT Score (ASPECTS) is considered as a systematic method of assessing ischemic change on non-contrast CT scans (...

Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial of humanoid robot-based distraction for venipuncture pain in children.

BMJ open
INTRODUCTION: Intravenous insertion (IVI) is a very common procedure in the emergency department (ED). IVI is often painful and stressful for both children and their families. Currently, distraction therapy is not used as a standard of care for IVI i...