Trajectory data represent an essential source of information on travel behaviors and human mobility patterns, assuming a central role in a wide range of services related to transportation planning, personalized recommendation strategies, and resource...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Feb 21, 2022
Social and behavioral determinants of health (SBDoH) have important roles in shaping people's health. In clinical research studies, especially comparative effectiveness studies, failure to adjust for SBDoH factors will potentially cause confounding i...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Feb 21, 2022
Clinical notes are an efficient way to record patient information but are notoriously hard to decipher for non-experts. Automatically simplifying medical text can empower patients with valuable information about their health, while saving clinicians ...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Feb 21, 2022
Despite impressive success of machine learning algorithms in clinical natural language processing (cNLP), rule-based approaches still have a prominent role. In this paper, we introduce medspaCy, an extensible, open-source cNLP library based on spaCy ...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Feb 21, 2022
Sentence boundary detection (SBD) is a fundamental building block in the Natural Language Processing (NLP) pipeline. Incorrect SBD may impact subsequent processing stages resulting in decreased performance. In well-behaved corpora, a few simple rules...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Feb 21, 2022
Clinical guidelines integrate latest evidence to support clinical decision-making. As new research findings are published at an increasing rate, it would be helpful to detect when such results disagree with current guideline recommendations. In this ...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Feb 21, 2022
Accuracy of medication data in electronic health records (EHRs) is crucial for patient care and research, but many studies have shown that medication lists frequently contain errors. In contrast, physicians often pay more attention to the clinical no...
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Feb 21, 2022
Unhealthy alcohol use represents a major economic burden and cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States. Implementation of interventions for unhealthy alcohol use depends on the availability and accuracy of screening tools. Our group previ...
Zeitschrift fur Evidenz, Fortbildung und Qualitat im Gesundheitswesen
Feb 17, 2022
BACKGROUND: CIRSmedical.de is a publicly accessible, cross-institutional reporting and learning system, which is organized by the German Agency for Quality in Medicine (ÄZQ). CIRSmedical.de has existed since 2005 and has published more than 6,000 eve...
Journal of pain and symptom management
Feb 16, 2022
CONTEXT: Documented goals-of-care discussions are an important quality metric for patients with serious illness. Natural language processing (NLP) is a promising approach for identifying goals-of-care discussions in the electronic health record (EHR)...
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