Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2018
ICD encoded diagnoses are a popular criterion for eligibility algorithms for study cohort recruitment. However, "official" ICD encoded diagnoses used for billing purposes are afflicted with a bias originating from legal issues. This work presents an ...
Journal for healthcare quality : official publication of the National Association for Healthcare Quality
Jan 1, 2018
A diverse universe of statistical models in the literature aim to help hospitals understand the risk factors of their preventable readmissions. However, these models are usually not necessarily applicable in other contexts, fail to achieve good discr...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Apr 1, 2017
OBJECTIVE: The goal of this study was to develop a practical framework for recognizing and disambiguating clinical abbreviations, thereby improving current clinical natural language processing (NLP) systems' capability to handle abbreviations in clin...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2017
Uncovering clinical research trends allows us to understand the direction of healthcare services and is essential for longer-term healthcare planning. The Hospital Authority Convention is a mainstream annual healthcare conference that gathers up-to-d...
IMPORTANCE: Suicide represents the 10th leading cause of death across age groups in the United States (12.6 cases per 100 000) and remains challenging to predict. While many individuals who die by suicide are seen by physicians before their attempt, ...
Annals of the American Thoracic Society
Sep 1, 2016
RATIONALE: Transitions to outpatient care are crucial after critical illness, but the documentation practices in discharge documents after critical illness are unknown.
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
In Italy, ICD-9-CM is currently used for coding health conditions at hospital discharge, but ICD-10 is being introduced thanks to the IT-DRG Project. In this project, one needed component is a set of transcoding rules and associated tools for easing ...