Physical and engineering sciences in medicine
Aug 16, 2021
Static and dynamic posture analysis was a critical clinical examination in physiotherapy and rehabilitation. It was a time-consuming task for clinicians, so a semi-automatic method can facilitate this process as well as provide well-documented medica...
Journal of stroke and cerebrovascular diseases : the official journal of National Stroke Association
Aug 13, 2021
BACKGROUND: Chagas disease (CD) and ischemic stroke (IS) have a close, but poorly understood, association. There is paucity of evidence on the ideal secondary prophylaxis and etiological determination, with few cardioembolic patients being identified...
OBJECTIVE: Accurate ascertainment of comorbidities is paramount in clinical research. While manual adjudication is labor-intensive and expensive, the adoption of electronic health records enables computational analysis of free-text documentation usin...
BACKGROUND: Genealogical information, such as that found in family trees, is imperative for biomedical research such as disease heritability and risk prediction. Researchers have used policyholder and their dependent information in medical claims dat...
BACKGROUND: Self-harm occurring within pregnancy and the postnatal year ("perinatal self-harm") is a clinically important yet under-researched topic. Current research likely under-estimates prevalence due to methodological limitations. Electronic hea...
Background Patterns of metastasis in cancer are increasingly relevant to prognostication and treatment planning but have historically been documented by means of autopsy series. Purpose To show the feasibility of using natural language processing (NL...
BACKGROUND: Artificial intelligence approaches can integrate complex features and can be used to predict a patient's risk of developing lung cancer, thereby decreasing the need for unnecessary and expensive diagnostic interventions.
RATIONALE: Clinical decision support (CDS) tools leveraging electronic health records (EHRs) have been an approach for addressing challenges in asthma care but remain under-studied through clinical trials.
STUDY OBJECTIVE: While patient-centered communication and shared decisionmaking are increasingly recognized as vital aspects of clinical practice, little is known about their characteristics in real-world emergency department (ED) settings. We constr...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Jul 30, 2021
BACKGROUND: Clinical notes record the health status, clinical manifestations and other detailed information of each patient. The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) codes are important labels for electronic health records. Automatic medica...