Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Feb 1, 2020
OBJECTIVE: Real-world data (RWD) are increasingly used for pharmacoepidemiology and regulatory innovation. Our objective was to compare adverse drug event (ADE) rates determined from two RWD sources, electronic health records and administrative claim...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Feb 1, 2020
OBJECTIVE: Consumers increasingly turn to the internet in search of health-related information; and they want their questions answered with short and precise passages, rather than needing to analyze lists of relevant documents returned by search engi...
While radiologists regularly issue follow-up recommendations, our preliminary research has shown that anywhere from 35 to 50% of patients who receive follow-up recommendations for findings of possible cancer on abdominopelvic imaging do not return fo...
BACKGROUND: Language is a valuable source of clinical information in Alzheimer's disease, as it declines concurrently with neurodegeneration. Consequently, speech and language data have been extensively studied in connection with its diagnosis.
Database : the journal of biological databases and curation
Jan 1, 2020
Clinical case reports are the 'eyewitness reports' of medicine and provide a valuable, unique, albeit noisy and underutilized type of evidence. Generally, a case report has a single main finding that represents the reason for writing up the report in...
PURPOSE: Less than 5% of patients with cancer enroll in clinical trials, and 1 in 5 trials are stopped for poor accrual. We evaluated an automated clinical trial matching system that uses natural language processing to extract patient and trial chara...
PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to develop an open-source natural language processing (NLP) pipeline for text mining of medical information from clinical reports. We also aimed to provide insight into why certain variables or reports are more suit...
Database : the journal of biological databases and curation
Jan 1, 2020
The ever accelerating pace of biomedical research results in corresponding acceleration in the volume of biomedical literature created. Since new research builds upon existing knowledge, the rate of increase in the available knowledge encoded in biom...
Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing
Jan 1, 2020
Word embeddings are a popular approach to unsupervised learning of word relationships that are widely used in natural language processing. In this article, we present a new set of embeddings for medical concepts learned using an extremely large colle...
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