Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine
Mar 4, 2020
BACKGROUND: In emergency medical services (EMSs), accurately predicting the severity of a patient's medical condition is important for the early identification of those who are vulnerable and at high-risk. In this study, we developed and validated an...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Mar 4, 2020
Accessing patients' social needs is a critical challenge at emergency departments (EDs). However, most EDs do not have extra staff to administer screeners, and without personnel administration, response rates are low especially for low health literac...
BACKGROUND: The current study aimed to classify recent and lifetime suicide attempt history among youth presenting to medical settings using machine learning (ML) as applied to a behavioral health screen self-report survey.
Journal of pain and symptom management
Feb 21, 2020
CONTEXT: Prior work using symptom burden to predict emergency department (ED) visits among patients with cancer has used traditional statistical methods such as logistic regression (LR). Machine learning approaches for prediction, such as artificial ...
After admission to emergency department (ED), patients with critical illnesses are transferred to intensive care unit (ICU) due to unexpected clinical deterioration occurrence. Identifying such unplanned ICU transfers is urgently needed for medical p...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Dec 30, 2019
OBJECTIVE: To examine the association between the medical imaging utilization and information related to patients' socioeconomic, demographic and clinical factors during the patients' ED visits; and to develop predictive models using these associated...
BACKGROUND: The triage of patients in prehospital care is a difficult task, and improved risk assessment tools are needed both at the dispatch center and on the ambulance to differentiate between low- and high-risk patients. This study validates a ma...
MOTIVATION: Emergency Departments' (ED) modern triage systems implemented worldwide are solely based upon medical knowledge and experience. This is a limitation of these systems, since there might be hidden patterns that can be explored in big volume...
Computational and mathematical methods in medicine
Nov 15, 2019
Emergency departments (EDs) play a vital role in the whole healthcare system as they are the first point of care in hospitals for urgent and critically ill patients. Therefore, effective management of hospital's ED is crucial in improving the quality...