OBJECTIVES: Asthma is a heterogenous condition with significant diagnostic complexity, including variations in symptoms and temporal criteria. The disease can be difficult for clinicians to diagnose accurately. Properly identifying asthma patients fr...
The study aims to explore the application of international classification of diseases (ICD) coding technology and embedded electronic medical record (EMR) system. The study established an EMR information knowledge system and collected the data of pat...
OBJECTIVE: Investigation of asymptomatic carotid stenosis treatment is hindered by the lack of a contemporary population-based disease cohort. We describe the use of natural language processing (NLP) to identify stenosis in patients undergoing caroti...
International journal of medical informatics
34391016
BACKGROUND: Computer-assisted clinical coding (CAC) based on automated coding algorithms has been expected to improve the International Classification of Disease, tenth version (ICD-10) coding quality and productivity, whereas studies oriented to pri...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
34330264
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...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
34753471
BACKGROUND: The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) has long been the main basis for comparability of statistics on causes of mortality and morbidity between places and over time. This paper provides an overview of the recently completed 1...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
35022039
BACKGROUND: Automated ICD coding on medical texts via machine learning has been a hot topic. Related studies from medical field heavily relies on conventional bag-of-words (BoW) as the feature extraction method, and do not commonly use more complicat...
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...
The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences
35239951
BACKGROUND: Delirium is underdiagnosed in clinical practice and is not routinely coded for billing. Manual chart review can be used to identify the occurrence of delirium; however, it is labor-intensive and impractical for large-scale studies. Natura...
The journal of trauma and acute care surgery
34554135
BACKGROUND: Existing mortality prediction models have attempted to quantify injury burden following trauma-related admissions with the most notable being the Injury Severity Score (ISS). Although easy to calculate, it requires additional administrati...