Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
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We report 18 cases of colorectalcancer in patients aged over 90 years who received surgicaltreatment . Except for 2 patients who had Stageā £ colorectal cancer, all patients underwent R0 colorectal resection. The mean operation time, blood loss, and le...
OBJECTIVES: Patients in oncological and palliative care (PC) often have complex needs, which require a comprehensive treatment approach. The assessment of patient-reported outcomes (PROs) has been shown to improve identification of patient needs and ...
International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics
32446952
PURPOSE: To determine whether a machine learning approach optimizes survival estimation for patients with symptomatic bone metastases (SBM), we developed the Bone Metastases Ensemble Trees for Survival (BMETS) to predict survival using 27 prognostic ...
CONTEXT: Goals-of-care discussions are an important quality metric in palliative care. However, goals-of-care discussions are often documented as free text in diverse locations. It is difficult to identify these discussions in the electronic health r...
Journal of vascular and interventional radiology : JVIR
33012648
A systematic review and meta-analysis of pain response after radiofrequency (RF) ablation over time for osseous metastases was conducted in 2019. Analysis used a random-effects model with GOSH plots and meta-regression. Fourteen studies comprising 42...
The so-called artificial intelligence tools applied to palliative care (machine learning, natural language processing) have great potential to support clinicians in improving decision-making processes and in identifying those who are at high risk of ...
BACKGROUND: High quality serious illness communication requires good understanding of patients' values and beliefs for their treatment at end of life. Natural Language Processing (NLP) offers a reliable and scalable method for measuring and analyzing...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
33611523
OBJECTIVE: Access to palliative care (PC) is important for many patients with uncontrolled symptom burden from serious or complex illness. However, many patients who could benefit from PC do not receive it early enough or at all. We sought to address...