With clinical trials unable to detect all potential adverse reactions to drugs and medical devices prior to their release into the market, accurate post-market surveillance is critical to ensure their safety and efficacy. Electronic health records (E...
Accurately recording a patient's medical conditions in an EHR system is the basis of effectively documenting patient health status, coding for billing, and supporting data-driven clinical decision making. However, patient conditions are often not ful...
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a progressive lung disease that produces non-reversible airflow limitations. Approximately 10% of Canadians aged 35 years or older are living with COPD. Primary care is often the first contact an indivi...
BACKGROUND: Multimorbidity clinical risk scores allow clinicians to quickly assess their patients' health for decision making, often for recommendation to care management programs. However, these scores are limited by several issues: existing multimo...
In the last decade, the widespread adoption of electronic health record documentation has created huge opportunities for information mining. Natural language processing (NLP) techniques using machine and deep learning are becoming increasingly widesp...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Nov 16, 2021
BACKGROUND: In recent years, with the development of artificial intelligence, the use of deep learning technology for clinical information extraction has become a new trend. Clinical Event Detection (CED) as its subtask has attracted the attention fr...
OBJECTIVES: Medically minor but clinically important findings associated with physical child abuse, such as bruises in pre-mobile infants, may be identified by frontline clinicians yet the association of these injuries with child abuse is often not r...
The American journal of emergency medicine
Nov 9, 2021
BACKGROUND: The Mortality Probability Model (MPM) is used in research and quality improvement to adjust for severity of illness and can also inform triage decisions. However, a limitation for its automated use or application is that it includes the v...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Nov 9, 2021
BACKGROUND: There are significant variabilities in guideline-concordant documentation in asthma care. However, assessing clinician's documentation is not feasible using only structured data but requires labor-intensive chart review of electronic heal...
Journal of pain and symptom management
Nov 4, 2021
CONTEXT: For patients with cancer, uncontrolled pain and other symptoms are the leading cause of unplanned hospitalizations. Early access to specialty palliative care (PC) is effective to reduce symptom burden, but more efficient approaches are neede...