OBJECTIVE: To assess the consistency of machine learning and statistical techniques in predicting individual level and population level risks of cardiovascular disease and the effects of censoring on risk predictions.
Identifying unique patients across multiple care facilities or services is a major challenge in providing continuous care and undertaking health research. Identifying and linking patients without compromising privacy and security is an emerging issue...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Dec 5, 2018
U.S. military veterans who were discharged from service for misconduct are at high risk for homelessness. Stratifying homelessness risk based on both military service factors and clinical characteristics could facilitate targeted provision of prevent...
BACKGROUND: Large amounts of patient data are routinely manually collected in hospitals by using standalone medical devices, including vital signs. Such data is sometimes stored in spreadsheets, not forming part of patients' electronic health records...
International journal of medical informatics
Dec 23, 2017
OBJECTIVE: In this work, we propose an ontology-driven approach to identify events and their attributes from episodes of care included in medical reports written in Italian. For this language, shared resources for clinical information extraction are ...
BACKGROUND: Clinical information is often stored as free text, e.g. in discharge summaries or pathology reports. These documents are semi-structured using section headers, numbered lists, items and classification strings. However, it is still challen...
OBJECTIVES: The radiology report is the most important source of clinical imaging information. It documents critical information about the patient's health and the radiologist's interpretation of medical findings. It also communicates information to ...
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