Studies in health technology and informatics
Apr 24, 2025
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being explored for various applications in medical language processing. Due to data privacy issues, it is recommended to apply non-proprietary models that can be run locally. Therefore, this study aims to...
Japan journal of nursing science : JJNS
Jan 1, 2025
AIM: Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are increasingly used in palliative care to evaluate patients' symptoms and conditions. Healthcare providers often collect PROMs through conversations. However, the manual entry of these data into electr...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Nov 22, 2024
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a complex neurodegenerative disease with a variable prognosis that complicates effective management and treatment. This study leverages machine learning (ML) to enhance the understanding of disease progression and uncover g...
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...
PURPOSE: Adverse effects of chemotherapy often require hospital admissions or treatment management. Identifying factors contributing to unplanned hospital utilization may improve health care quality and patients' well-being. This study aimed to asses...
Nutcracker phenomenon is the compression of the left renal vein between the superior mesenteric artery (SMA) and the abdominal aorta. Nutcracker syndrome refers to the presence of nutcracker phenomenon with symptoms. Between 2016 and 2022, we perfor...
Integration of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) in artificial intelligence (AI) studies is a critical part of the humanisation of AI for health. It allows AI technologies to incorporate patients' own views of their symptoms and predict outco...
PURPOSE: Symptoms are vital outcomes for cancer clinical trials, observational research, and population-level surveillance. Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) are valuable for monitoring symptoms, yet there are many challenges to collecting PROs at sca...
Most states have legalized medical cannabis, yet little is known about how medical cannabis use is documented in patients' electronic health records (EHRs). We used natural language processing (NLP) to calculate the prevalence of clinician-documente...
Annals of the American Thoracic Society
Jan 1, 2022
Elexacaftor, tezacaftor, and ivacaftor (ETI) in triple combination improves pulmonary health for people with cystic fibrosis (PwCF). However, its impact on objective measures of sinus disease and health utility is unestablished. To evaluate the imp...