OBJECTIVES: Unstructured free-text patient feedback contains rich information, and analysing these data manually would require a lot of personnel resources which are not available in most healthcare organisations.To undertake a systematic review of t...
Clinical reviews in allergy & immunology
Feb 1, 2021
With advances in information technology, the demand for using data science to enhance healthcare and disease management is rapidly increasing. Among these technologies, machine learning (ML) has become ubiquitous and indispensable for solving complex...
Canadian journal of rural medicine : the official journal of the Society of Rural Physicians of Canada = Journal canadien de la medecine rurale : le journal officiel de la Societe de medecine rurale du Canada
Jan 1, 2021
INTRODUCTION: Medication reconciliation (MedRec) reduces the risk of preventable medication-related adverse events (ADEs). A best possible medication discharge plan (BPMDP) is a revised list of medications a patient will take when discharged from hos...
BACKGROUND: Possible benefits of makeup therapy, in terms of immediate and late effects on cognitive and affective functions, have not been fully proved for dementia patients.
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Dec 9, 2020
OBJECTIVE: Improving the patient experience has become an essential component of any healthcare system's performance metrics portfolio. In this study, we developed a machine learning model to predict a patient's response to the Hospital Consumer Asse...
Surgical techniques have greatly changed and advanced with the advent of robot-assisted surgery (RAS). Patient outcome measures for RAS generally focus on patient morbidity and mortality, surgical complications, and hospital length of stay; there is ...
Robotic systems are used to support inpatients and healthcare professionals and to improve the efficiency and quality of nursing. There is a lack of scientific literature on how applied robotic systems can be used to support inpatients. This study us...
Individual instances of nonadherence to reduced calorie dietary prescriptions, that is, dietary lapses, represent a key challenge for weight management. Just-in-time adaptive interventions (JITAIs), which collect and analyze data in real time to deli...
BACKGROUND: The use of social media to discuss topics related to and within plastic surgery has become widespread in recent years; however, it remains unclear how to use this abundance of largely untapped data to propagate educational research in the...