AIMC Topic: Risk Assessment

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Serum Aldosterone as Predictor of Progression of Coronary Heart Disease in Patients Without Signs of Heart Failure After Acute Myocardial Infarction.

Medical archives (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
INTRODUCTION: In patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) early risk assessment of development of complications is of great importance. It is proven that aldosterone level has a major role in progression of cardiovascular pathology.

Automated Risk Assessment for School Violence: a Pilot Study.

The Psychiatric quarterly
School violence has increased over the past ten years. This study evaluated students using a more standard and sensitive method to help identify students who are at high risk for school violence. 103 participants were recruited through Cincinnati Chi...

Machine Learning Outperforms ACC / AHA CVD Risk Calculator in MESA.

Journal of the American Heart Association
Background Studies have demonstrated that the current US guidelines based on American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) Pooled Cohort Equations Risk Calculator may underestimate risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease ...

Predicting Pressure Injury in Critical Care Patients: A Machine-Learning Model.

American journal of critical care : an official publication, American Association of Critical-Care Nurses
BACKGROUND: Hospital-acquired pressure injuries are a serious problem among critical care patients. Some can be prevented by using measures such as specialty beds, which are not feasible for every patient because of costs. However, decisions about wh...

Surgical Risk Is Not Linear: Derivation and Validation of a Novel, User-friendly, and Machine-learning-based Predictive OpTimal Trees in Emergency Surgery Risk (POTTER) Calculator.

Annals of surgery
INTRODUCTION: Most risk assessment tools assume that the impact of risk factors is linear and cumulative. Using novel machine-learning techniques, we sought to design an interactive, nonlinear risk calculator for Emergency Surgery (ES).