AIMC Topic: Cost of Illness

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AI in Radiology: Where are we today in Multiple Sclerosis Imaging?

RoFo : Fortschritte auf dem Gebiete der Rontgenstrahlen und der Nuklearmedizin
BACKGROUND:  MR imaging is an essential component in managing patients with Multiple sclerosis (MS). This holds true for the initial diagnosis as well as for assessing the clinical course of MS. In recent years, a growing number of computer tools wer...

Prediction of caregiver burden in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a machine learning approach using random forests applied to a cohort study.

BMJ open
OBJECTIVES: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a rare neurodegenerative disease that is characterised by the rapid degeneration of upper and lower motor neurons and has a fatal trajectory 3-4 years from symptom onset. Due to the nature of the con...

Artificial intelligence and the future of psychiatry: Insights from a global physician survey.

Artificial intelligence in medicine
BACKGROUND: Futurists have predicted that new autonomous technologies, embedded with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), will lead to substantial job losses in many sectors disrupting many aspects of healthcare. Mental health appe...

Prevalence of Financial Considerations Documented in Primary Care Encounters as Identified by Natural Language Processing Methods.

JAMA network open
IMPORTANCE: Quantifying patient-physician cost conversations is challenging but important as out-of-pocket spending by US patients increases and patients are increasingly interested in discussing costs with their physicians.

Smooth Bayesian network model for the prediction of future high-cost patients with COPD.

International journal of medical informatics
INTRODUCTION: The clinical course of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is marked by acute exacerbation events that increase hospitalization rates and healthcare spending. The early identification of future high-cost patients with COPD may ...

Natural Language Processing-Identified Problem Opioid Use and Its Associated Health Care Costs.

Journal of pain & palliative care pharmacotherapy
Use of prescription opioids and problems of abuse and addiction have increased over the past decade. Claims-based studies have documented substantial economic burden of opioid abuse. This study utilized electronic health record (EHR) data to identify...

Comparing clinician descriptions of frailty and geriatric syndromes using electronic health records: a retrospective cohort study.

BMC geriatrics
BACKGROUND: Geriatric syndromes, including frailty, are common in older adults and associated with adverse outcomes. We compared patients described in clinical notes as "frail" to other older adults with respect to geriatric syndrome burden and healt...

The Economic Burden of ACPA-Positive Status Among Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis.

Journal of managed care & specialty pharmacy
BACKGROUND: Anticitrullinated protein antibodies (ACPAs) are serological biomarkers associated with early, rapidly progressing rheumatoid arthritis (RA), including more severe disease and joint damage. ACPA testing has become a routine tool for RA di...