Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs), including the latest COVID-19 pandemic, have emerged and raised global public health crises in recent decades. Without existing protective immunity, an EID may spread rapidly and cause mass casualties in a very sh...
Medical & biological engineering & computing
Jan 7, 2022
COVID-19 cases are increasing around the globe with almost 5 million of deaths. We propose here a deep learning model capable of predicting the duration of the infection by means of information available at hospital admission. A total of 222 patients...
Anaesthesia, critical care & pain medicine
Dec 27, 2021
BACKGROUND: There is an unmet need for timely and reliable prediction of post-cardiac arrest (CA) clinical trajectories. We hypothesized that physiological time series (PTS) data recorded on the first day of intensive care would contribute significan...
BACKGROUND: Emergency department (ED) crowding has resulted in delayed patient treatment and has become a universal health care problem. Although a triage system, such as the 5-level emergency severity index, somewhat improves the process of ED treat...
Malnutrition is common, especially among older, hospitalised patients, and is associated with higher mortality, longer hospitalisation stays, infections, and loss of muscle mass. It is therefore of utmost importance to employ a proper method for diet...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Dec 12, 2021
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Real-world evidence is defined as clinical evidence regarding the use and potential benefits or risks of a medical product derived from real-world data analyses. Standardization and structuring of data are necessary to analy...
A key task of emergency departments is to promptly identify patients who require hospital admission. Early identification ensures patient safety and aids organisational planning. Supervised machine learning algorithms can use data describing historic...
OBJECTIVE: Analyze the influencing factors of hospitalization expenses of breast cancer patients in a tertiary hospital in Chengdu and provide a basis and suggestion for controlling the unreasonable increase of medical expenses.
Journal of pain and symptom management
Nov 23, 2021
CONTEXT: Hospitalization provides an opportunity to address end-of-life care (EoLC) preferences if patients at risk of death can be accurately identified while in the hospital. The modified Hospital One-Year Mortality Risk (mHOMR) uses demographic an...
BACKGROUND: Delays in patient flow and a shortage of hospital beds are commonplace in hospitals during periods of increased infection incidence, such as seasonal influenza and the COVID-19 pandemic. The objective of this study was to develop and eval...