BACKGROUND: Palliative spine radiation therapy is prone to treatment at the wrong anatomic level. We developed a fully automated deep learning-based spine-targeting quality assurance system (DL-SpiQA) for detecting treatment at the wrong anatomic lev...
PURPOSE: Data on end-of-life care (EOLC) quality, assessed through evidence-based quality measures (QMs), are difficult to obtain. Natural language processing (NLP) enables efficient quality measurement and is not yet used for children with serious i...
There is no study that comprehensively evaluates data on the readability and quality of "palliative care" information provided by artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots ChatGPT®, Bard®, Gemini®, Copilot®, Perplexity®. Our study is an observational and...
PURPOSE: Palliative care is recommended for patients with cancer with a life expectancy of <12 months. Machine learning (ML) techniques can help in predicting survival outcomes among patients with cancer and may help distinguish who benefits the most...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jul 24, 2024
Community-based palliative care is a useful, but underutilized service to support seriously ill older adults to remain safely at home and improve quality of life. Clinical decision support tools can assist palliative care need assessments if presente...
PURPOSE: The estimation of prognosis and life expectancy is critical in the care of patients with advanced cancer. To aid clinical decision making, we build a prognostic strategy combining a machine learning (ML) model with explainable artificial int...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 25, 2024
While advanced care planning (ACP) is an essential practice for ensuring patient-centered care, its adoption remains poor and the completeness of its documentation variable. Natural language processing (NLP) approaches hold promise for supporting ACP...
Omics : a journal of integrative biology
Oct 1, 2023
Advances in digital health, systems biology, environmental monitoring, and artificial intelligence (AI) continue to revolutionize health care, ushering a precision health future. More than disease treatment and prevention, precision health aims at ma...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
May 19, 2023
OBJECTIVE: Deep learning (DL) has been applied in proofs of concept across biomedical imaging, including across modalities and medical specialties. Labeled data are critical to training and testing DL models, but human expert labelers are limited. In...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Nov 25, 2021
The aim of this article was to describe a novel methodology for transforming complex nursing care plan data into meaningful variables to assess the impact of nursing care. We extracted standardized care plan data for older adults from the electronic ...
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