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...
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...
INTRODUCTION: The 10th revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) codes is frequently used to identify pulmonary embolism (PE) events, although the validity of ICD-10 has been questioned. Natural language processing (NLP) is a ...
Understanding patient accumulation of comorbidities can facilitate healthcare strategy and personalized preventative care. We applied a directed network graph to electronic health record (EHR) data and characterized comorbidities in a cohort of healt...
Exponential growth of biomedical literature and clinical data demands more robust yet precise computational methodologies to extract useful insights from biomedical literature and to perform accurate assignment of disease-specific codes. Such approac...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Jan 25, 2021
Research has demonstrated cohort misclassification when studies of suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STBs) rely on ICD-9/10-CM diagnosis codes. Electronic health record (EHR) data are being explored to better identify patients, a process called EHR ph...
OBJECTIVE: The objective of the study was to compare the performance of logistic regression and boosted trees for predicting patient mortality from large sets of diagnosis codes in electronic healthcare records.
The International Statistical Classification of Disease and Related Health Problems (ICD) is an international standard system for categorizing and reporting diseases, injuries, disorders, and health conditions. Most previously-proposed disease predic...
Journal of stroke and cerebrovascular diseases : the official journal of National Stroke Association
Oct 15, 2020
INTRODUCTION: Nontraumatic intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) is a neurological emergency of research interest; however, unlike ischemic stroke, has not been well studied in large datasets due to the lack of an established administrative claims-based defi...
International journal of environmental research and public health
Jul 10, 2020
The application of machine learning (ML) for use in generating insights and making predictions on new records continues to expand within the medical community. Despite this progress to date, the application of time series analysis has remained undere...
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