Studies in health technology and informatics
Dec 15, 2021
Systems of long-term care are needed in aging society to meet the needs of older people. In rapidly increasing demand for long-term care, how to ensure the quality of long-term care is an important issue. Therefore, we designed a rule-based expert sy...
The journal of trauma and acute care surgery
Dec 1, 2021
BACKGROUND: Rib fractures serve as both a marker of injury severity and a guide for clinical decision making for trauma patients. Although recent studies have suggested that rib fractures are dynamic, the degree of progressive offset remains unknown....
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Jul 14, 2021
OBJECTIVE: Claims-based algorithms are used in the Food and Drug Administration Sentinel Active Risk Identification and Analysis System to identify occurrences of health outcomes of interest (HOIs) for medical product safety assessment. This project ...
The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences
Mar 31, 2021
BACKGROUND: Advances in computational algorithms and the availability of large datasets with clinically relevant characteristics provide an opportunity to develop machine learning prediction models to aid in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of old...
BACKGROUND: Patients with mental health disorders often have difficulty perceiving associations between multiple symptoms, such as inter-relations between somatic and psychological symptoms. This difficulty may be particularly challenging in patients...
Understanding patient-perceived outcomes is crucial for assessing the effectiveness and acceptability of hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatment. This study aimed to explore patient-perceived outcomes of receiving direct-acting antivirals (DAAs). This stud...
Integrative biology : quantitative biosciences from nano to macro
May 21, 2020
Characterization of decision-making in cells in response to received signals is of importance for understanding how cell fate is determined. The problem becomes multi-faceted and complex when we consider cellular heterogeneity and dynamics of biochem...
Machine learning-based early warning systems (EWSs) can detect clinical deterioration more accurately than point-score tools. In patients with sepsis, however, the timing and scope of sepsis interventions relative to an advanced EWS alert are not wel...