AIMC Topic: Quality Improvement

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System for High-Intensity Evaluation During Radiation Therapy (SHIELD-RT): A Prospective Randomized Study of Machine Learning-Directed Clinical Evaluations During Radiation and Chemoradiation.

Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology
PURPOSE: Patients undergoing outpatient radiotherapy (RT) or chemoradiation (CRT) frequently require acute care (emergency department evaluation or hospitalization). Machine learning (ML) may guide interventions to reduce this risk. There are limited...

2020 ACR Presidential Address: Quality, Ownership, and Our Role as Physicians.

Journal of the American College of Radiology : JACR
A story from long ago reminds us of the importance of quality in our practices, of taking ownership of our patients, and of our role as physicians. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has disrupted our practices. Before the pandemic, man...

Evaluation of the ACS NSQIP surgical risk calculator in patients undergoing pelvic organ prolapse surgery.

International urogynecology journal
INTRODUCTION AND HYPOTHESIS: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of the American College of Surgeons National Surgery Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP) surgical risk calculator in predicting postoperative complications in pat...

How to automatically turn patient experience free-text responses into actionable insights: a natural language programming (NLP) approach.

BMC medical informatics and decision making
BACKGROUND: Patient experience surveys often include free-text responses. Analysis of these responses is time-consuming and often underutilized. This study examined whether Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques could provide a data-driven, hos...

What are the main patient safety concerns of healthcare stakeholders: a mixed-method study of Web-based text.

International journal of medical informatics
OBJECTIVES: Various healthcare stakeholders define quality of care in different ways. Public policy could advocate all these concerns. This study was conducted to identify the main themes on patient safety of stakeholders expressed before and after t...

A machine-learning method for improving crash injury severity analysis: a case study of work zone crashes in Cairo, Egypt.

International journal of injury control and safety promotion
The quality of vehicular collision data is crucial for studying the relationship between injury severity and collision factors. Misclassified injury severity data in the crash dataset, however, may cause inaccurate parameter estimates and consequentl...

Opportunities for machine learning to improve surgical ward safety.

American journal of surgery
BACKGROUND: Delayed recognition of decompensation and failure-to-rescue on surgical wards are major sources of preventable harm. This review assimilates and critically evaluates available evidence and identifies opportunities to improve surgical ward...