INTRODUCTION: There is consistent evidence that the workload in general practices is substantially increasing. The digitalisation of healthcare including the use of artificial intelligence has been suggested as a solution to this problem. We wanted t...
OBJECTIVES: The Veterans Affairs (VA) Health Care System is among the largest integrated health systems in the United States. Many VA enrollees are dual users of Medicare, and little research has examined methods to most accurately predict which vete...
Journal of consulting and clinical psychology
Jan 1, 2020
OBJECTIVE: Depression is a highly common mental disorder and a major cause of disability worldwide. Several psychological interventions are available, but there is a lack of evidence to decide which treatment works best for whom. This study aimed to ...
Technology and health care : official journal of the European Society for Engineering and Medicine
Jan 1, 2020
BACKGROUND: Periodontitis (PD), a form of gum disease, is a major public health concern as it is globally prevalent and harms both individual quality of life and economic productivity. Global cost in lost productivity is estimated at US$54 billion an...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Dec 1, 2019
OBJECTIVE: Amid electronic health records, laboratory tests, and other technology, office-based patient and provider communication is still the heart of primary medical care. Patients typically present multiple complaints, requiring physicians to dec...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Oct 1, 2019
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study is to characterize the dynamic structure of primary care consultations by identifying typical activities and their inter-relationships to inform the design of automated approaches to clinical documentation using...
Historically, the practice of medicine has been a physically intimate endeavor. Physicians have used their hands to palpate and reveal the secrets hidden within the body. Smelling the breath for the ketosis of diabetes or tasting the skin for the sal...
BACKGROUND: Super learning is an ensemble machine learning approach used increasingly as an alternative to classical prediction techniques. When implementing super learning, however, not tuning the hyperparameters of the algorithms in it may adversel...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2019
The analysis of primary care data plays an important role in understanding health at an individual and population level. Currently the utilization of computerized medical records is low due to the complexities, heterogeneities and veracity associated...