PURPOSE: Identification of patients for epidemiologic research through administrative coding has important limitations. We investigated the feasibility of a search based on natural language processing (NLP) on the text sections of electronic health r...
Journal of medical toxicology : official journal of the American College of Medical Toxicology
Jan 9, 2020
INTRODUCTION: Accurate data regarding opioid use, overdose, and treatment is important in guiding community efforts at combating the opioid epidemic. Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) is a potential method to quantify community-level trends of opio...
BACKGROUND: Evidence demonstrates that seeing alcoholic beverages in electronic media increases alcohol initiation and frequent and excessive drinking, particularly among young people. To efficiently assess this exposure, the aim was to develop the A...
Infection control and hospital epidemiology
Jan 9, 2020
Hospital-acquired infections remain a common cause of morbidity and mortality despite advances in infection prevention through use of bundles, environmental cleaning, antimicrobial stewardship, and other best practices. Current prevention strategies ...
International journal of medical informatics
Jan 8, 2020
PURPOSE: The purpose of our study was to predict blood pressure variability from time-series data of blood pressure measured at home and data obtained through medical examination at a hospital. Previous studies have reported the blood pressure variab...
AJR. American journal of roentgenology
Jan 8, 2020
This study evaluated the utility of a deep learning method for determining whether a small (≤ 4 cm) solid renal mass was benign or malignant on multiphase contrast-enhanced CT. This retrospective study included 1807 image sets from 168 pathological...
IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
Jan 8, 2020
OBJECTIVE: Constructing a framework to evaluate consciousness is an important issue in neuroscience research and clinical practice. However, there is still no systematic framework for quantifying altered consciousness along the dimensions of both lev...
Retinal detachment can lead to severe visual loss if not treated timely. The early diagnosis of retinal detachment can improve the rate of successful reattachment and the visual results, especially before macular involvement. Manual retinal detachmen...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Jan 8, 2020
BACKGROUND: Stroke severity is an important predictor of patient outcomes and is commonly measured with the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) scores. Because these scores are often recorded as free text in physician reports, structur...
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