AIMC Topic: Outcome Assessment, Health Care

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Using natural language processing to provide personalized learning opportunities from trainee clinical notes.

Journal of biomedical informatics Jun 10, 2015
OBJECTIVE: Assessment of medical trainee learning through pre-defined competencies is now commonplace in schools of medicine. We describe a novel electronic advisor system using natural language processing (NLP) to identify two geriatric medicine com...
Middle Aged Clinical Competence User-Computer Interface Educational Measurement Natural Language Processing Learning Reproducibility of Results Aged Students, Medical Hospitals, Veterans Tennessee Advance Directives Clinical Clerkship Outcome Assessment, Health Care Academic Medical Centers Education, Medical Automation Humans Software Algorithms Mental Disorders Electronic Health Records Geriatrics
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A formal concept analysis and semantic query expansion cooperation to refine health outcomes of interest.

BMC medical informatics and decision making May 20, 2015
BACKGROUND: Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are frequently used by clinicians and researchers to search for, extract, and analyze groups of patients by defining Health Outcome of Interests (HOI). The definition of an HOI is generally considered a co...
Semantics Humans Biological Ontologies Electronic Health Records Outcome Assessment, Health Care Medical Informatics
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Gait training in subacute non-ambulatory stroke patients using a full weight-bearing gait-assistance robot: A prospective, randomized, open, blinded-endpoint trial.

Journal of the neurological sciences May 1, 2015
BACKGROUND: This study was a prospective, randomized, open, blinded-endpoint trial with the aim of examining whether gait training with a gait-assistance robot (GAR) improves gait disturbances in subacute non-ambulatory hemiplegic stroke patients mor...
Statistics, Nonparametric Female Stroke Rehabilitation Muscle, Skeletal Humans Aged Weight-Bearing Robotics Prospective Studies Gait Disorders, Neurologic Male Double-Blind Method Activities of Daily Living Middle Aged Outcome Assessment, Health Care Stroke Locomotion Exercise Therapy Functional Laterality
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Robotic and clinical evaluation of upper limb motor performance in patients with Friedreich's Ataxia: an observational study.

Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation Apr 23, 2015
BACKGROUND: Friedreich's ataxia (FRDA) is the most common hereditary autosomal recessive form of ataxia. In this disease there is early manifestation of gait ataxia, and dysmetria of the arms and legs which causes impairment in daily activities that ...
Outcome Assessment, Health Care Biomechanical Phenomena Friedreich Ataxia Female Male Arm Humans Adolescent Reproducibility of Results Movement Child Young Adult Upper Extremity Robotics Adult
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Potential application of machine learning in health outcomes research and some statistical cautions.

Value in health : the journal of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research Jan 29, 2015
Traditional analytic methods are often ill-suited to the evolving world of health care big data characterized by massive volume, complexity, and velocity. In particular, methods are needed that can estimate models efficiently using very large dataset...
Humans Artificial Intelligence Algorithms Outcome Assessment, Health Care Health Services Research
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Single incision trans-umbilical total hysterectomy: robotic or laparoscopic?

Gynecologic and obstetric investigation Jan 27, 2015
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to compare the early surgical outcomes in patients who underwent total hysterectomy with laparoendoscopic single-site surgery (LESS-TH) versus robotic single-site total hysterectomy (RSS-TH).
Umbilicus Robotics Laparoscopy Outcome Assessment, Health Care Humans Hysterectomy Female Aged Adult Middle Aged
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Factors Contributing to Early Recovery of Urinary Continence Analyzed by Pre- and Postoperative Pelvic Anatomical Features at Robot-Assisted Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy.

Journal of endourology Dec 11, 2014
OBJECTIVE: The aim of the present study is to elucidate factors contributing to early recovery of urinary continence after robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (RARP) from the perspective of urethral and vesical anatomical features after...
Humans Pelvis Japan Outcome Assessment, Health Care Postoperative Period Cohort Studies Odds Ratio Prospective Studies ROC Curve Preoperative Period Aged Recovery of Function Prostatectomy Male Robotics Urinary Incontinence Postoperative Complications Laparoscopy Urethra
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Assessment of paediatric thoracic robotic surgery.

Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery Dec 4, 2014
OBJECTIVES: Many studies have reported that robotic-assisted surgery is safe and feasible for paediatric cases. However, very few paediatric thoracic robotic cases have been described. The aim of this study was to share our preliminary experience wit...
Infant Child, Preschool Child Treatment Outcome Robotics Outcome Assessment, Health Care Thoracic Surgical Procedures Esophageal Atresia Humans Female Infant, Newborn Male
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Outcomes of Extraperitoneal Robot-Assisted Radical Prostatectomy in the Morbidly Obese: A Propensity Score-Matched Study.

Journal of endourology Dec 2, 2014
INTRODUCTION: An increasing number of obese patients (body mass index [BMI] >30 kg/m(2)]) with localized prostate cancer are presenting as candidates for robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP), which can be carried out using the transperitoneal ...
Middle Aged Postoperative Complications Length of Stay Body Mass Index Lymph Node Excision Humans Databases, Factual Prospective Studies Male Outcome Assessment, Health Care New York Multivariate Analysis Operative Time Propensity Score Prostatectomy Robotics Prostatic Neoplasms Obesity, Morbid
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Robot-assisted gait training is not superior to balance training for improving postural instability in patients with mild to moderate Parkinson's disease: a single-blind randomized controlled trial.

Clinical rehabilitation Jul 31, 2014
OBJECTIVE: The main aim was to compare robotic gait training vs. balance training for reducing postural instability in patients with Parkinson's disease. The secondary aim was to compare their effects on the level of confidence during activities of d...
Exercise Therapy Activities of Daily Living Outcome Assessment, Health Care Postural Balance Humans Middle Aged Single-Blind Method Female Severity of Illness Index Self Concept Aged Parkinson Disease Gait Male Robotics
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