BACKGROUND: The referral process for consultation with a spine surgeon remains inefficient, given a substantial proportion of referrals to spine surgeons are nonoperative.
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Jun 12, 2021
OBJECTIVE: Access to palliative care (PC) is important for many patients with uncontrolled symptom burden from serious or complex illness. However, many patients who could benefit from PC do not receive it early enough or at all. We sought to address...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Jun 12, 2021
OBJECTIVE: Substance use disorder is a critical public health issue. Discovering the synergies among factors impacting treatment program success can help governments and treatment facilities develop effective policies. In this work, we propose a nove...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Jun 12, 2021
OBJECTIVE: The spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has led to severe strain on hospital capacity in many countries. We aim to develop a model helping planners assess expected COVID-19 hospital resource utilization based on individual patien...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Jun 12, 2021
OBJECTIVE: Sentiment analysis is a popular tool for analyzing health-related social media content. However, existing studies exhibit numerous methodological issues and inconsistencies with respect to research design and results reporting, which could...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Jun 12, 2021
OBJECTIVE: Being able to predict a patient's life expectancy can help doctors and patients prioritize treatments and supportive care. For predicting life expectancy, physicians have been shown to outperform traditional models that use only a few pred...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Jun 12, 2021
OBJECTIVE: Cause of death is used as an important outcome of clinical research; however, access to cause-of-death data is limited. This study aimed to develop and validate a machine-learning model that predicts the cause of death from the patient's l...
On the one hand, complexity science and enactive and embodied cognitive science approaches emphasize that people, as complex adaptive systems, are ambiguous, indeterminable, and inherently unpredictable. On the other, Machine Learning (ML) systems th...
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