BACKGROUND: Although transcatheter aortic valve replacement has emerged as an alternative to surgical aortic valve replacement, it requires extensive healthcare resources, and optimal length of hospital stay has become increasingly important. This st...
Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA
Sep 30, 2024
PURPOSE: Despite the increase in outpatient total knee arthroplasty (TKA) procedures, many patients are still discharged to non-home locations following index surgery. The ability to accurately predict non-home discharge (NHD) following TKAs has the ...
Recent advancements in computing have led to the development of artificial intelligence (AI) enabled healthcare technologies. AI-assisted clinical decision support (CDS) integrated into electronic health records (EHR) was demonstrated to have a signi...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Aug 29, 2024
BACKGROUND: Medical text, as part of an electronic health record, is an essential information source in healthcare. Although natural language processing (NLP) techniques for medical text are developing fast, successful transfer into clinical practice...
International journal of medical informatics
Aug 10, 2024
INTRODUCTION: Delays in discharging patients from Acute Medical Units hamper patient flows throughout the hospital. The decision to discharge a patient is mainly based on the patients' physiological condition, but may vary between physicians. An obje...
Discharge planning is integral to patient flow as delays can lead to hospital-wide congestion. Because a structured discharge plan can reduce hospital length of stay while enhancing patient satisfaction, this topic has caught the interest of many hea...
Weekend discharges occur less frequently than discharges on weekdays, contributing to hospital congestion. Artificial intelligence algorithms have previously been derived to predict which patients are nearing discharge based upon ward round notes. In...
BACKGROUND: Patients in serious condition due to COVID-19 often require special care in intensive care units (ICUs). This disease has affected over 758 million people and resulted in 6.8 million deaths worldwide. Additionally, the progression of the ...
International journal of nursing studies
May 9, 2024
BACKGROUND: ICU readmissions and post-discharge mortality pose significant challenges. Previous studies used EHRs and machine learning models, but mostly focused on structured data. Nursing records contain crucial unstructured information, but their ...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Apr 10, 2024
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Critically ill children may suffer from impaired neurocognitive functions years after ICU (intensive care unit) discharge. To assess neurocognitive functions, these children are subjected to a fixed sequence of tests. Underg...
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