INTRODUCTION: There has been increasing interest in the potential benefit of vitamin D in improving breast cancer outcome. Preclinical studies suggest that vitamin D enhances chemotherapy-induced cell death. We investigated the impact of serum vitami...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Nov 5, 2015
The secondary use of electronic health records opens up new perspectives. They provide researchers with structured data and unstructured data, including free text reports. Many applications been developed to leverage knowledge from free-text reports,...
BACKGROUND: Fractional flow reserve (FFR) measurement requires adenosine injection. However, adenosine can induce conductive and rhythmic complications, or be contraindicated in some patients. Contrast-induced hyperemia could provide a simple first-l...
OBJECTIVES: To compare the efficacy, in current clinical practice, of first regimens containing abacavir with lamivudine (ABC/3TC) or tenofovir with emtricitabine (TDF/FTC) in patients with baseline viral load ≥100,000 HIV-1 RNA copies/mL.
INTRODUCTION: Adherent perirenal fat (APF) can be defined as inflammatory fat sticking to renal parenchyma, whose dissection is difficult and makes it troublesome to expose the tumour. Our objective was to evaluate the impact of APF on the technical ...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 22, 2024
Electronic health data concerning implantable medical devices (IMD) opens opportunities for dynamic real-world monitoring to assess associated risks related to implanted materials. Due to population ageing and expanding demands, total hip, knee, and ...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 22, 2024
Named Entity Recognition (NER) models based on Transformers have gained prominence for their impressive performance in various languages and domains. This work delves into the often-overlooked aspect of entity-level metrics and exposes significant di...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 22, 2024
Secure extraction of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) from Electronic Health Records (EHRs) presents significant privacy and security challenges. This study explores the application of Federated Learning (FL) to overcome these challenges wit...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 22, 2024
The task of Named Entity Recognition (NER) is central for leveraging the content of clinical texts in observational studies. Indeed, texts contain a large part of the information available in Electronic Health Records (EHRs). However, clinical texts ...