AIMC Topic: Primary Health Care

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Targeted prescription of cognitive-behavioral therapy versus person-centered counseling for depression using a machine learning approach.

Journal of consulting and clinical psychology
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 ...

Development of a periodontitis risk assessment model for primary care providers in an interdisciplinary setting.

Technology and health care : official journal of the European Society for Engineering and Medicine
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...

Detecting conversation topics in primary care office visits from transcripts of patient-provider interactions.

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
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...

A network model of activities in primary care consultations.

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
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...

Of Slide Rules and Stethoscopes: AI and the Future of Doctoring.

The Hastings Center report
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...

Can Hyperparameter Tuning Improve the Performance of a Super Learner?: A Case Study.

Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.)
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...

Analysis of Primary Care Computerised Medical Records with Deep Learning.

Studies in health technology and informatics
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...

Towards a Clinical Analytics Adoption Maturity Framework for Primary Care.

Studies in health technology and informatics
Clinical decision support systems are evolving with growing analytics capabilities towards pervasive use of artificial intelligence. Maturity models can guide the adoption of these new technologies in clinical practice to improve patient outcomes in ...

Automatic Detection of Skin and Subcutaneous Tissue Infections from Primary Care Electronic Medical Records.

Studies in health technology and informatics
INTRODUCTION: Skin and subcutaneous tissue infections (SSTI) are common conditions that cause avoidable hospitalisation in New Zealand. As part of a program to improve the management of SSTI in primary care, electronic medical records (EMR) of four A...