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The use of natural language processing on narrative medication schedules to compute average weekly dose.

Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety
PURPOSE: Medications with non-standard dosing and unstandardized units of measurement make the estimation of prescribed dose difficult from pharmacy dispensing data. A natural language processing tool named the SIG extractor was developed to identify...

Prevention of Unilateral Pulmonary Edema Complicating Robotic Mitral Valve Operations.

The Annals of thoracic surgery
BACKGROUND: Unilateral pulmonary edema (UPE) has been reported after mitral operations performed through the right side of the chest. The clinical presentation is compatible with an ischemia-reperfusion injury. This report describes modifications to ...

Problematic internet use (PIU): Associations with the impulsive-compulsive spectrum. An application of machine learning in psychiatry.

Journal of psychiatric research
Problematic internet use is common, functionally impairing, and in need of further study. Its relationship with obsessive-compulsive and impulsive disorders is unclear. Our objective was to evaluate whether problematic internet use can be predicted f...

Applying GIS and Machine Learning Methods to Twitter Data for Multiscale Surveillance of Influenza.

PloS one
Traditional methods for monitoring influenza are haphazard and lack fine-grained details regarding the spatial and temporal dynamics of outbreaks. Twitter gives researchers and public health officials an opportunity to examine the spread of influenza...

Support vector machines for automated snoring detection: proof-of-concept.

Sleep & breathing = Schlaf & Atmung
BACKGROUND: Snoring has been shown to be associated with adverse physical and mental health, independent of the effects of sleep disordered breathing. Despite increasing evidence for the risks of snoring, few studies on sleep and health include objec...

Characteristics of outpatient clinical summaries in the United States.

International journal of medical informatics
In the United States, federal regulations require that outpatient practices provide a clinical summary to ensure that patients understand what transpired during their appointment and what to do before the next visit. To determine whether clinical sum...

DIY-Bio - economic, epistemological and ethical implications and ambivalences.

Life sciences, society and policy
Since 2008, we witness the emergence of the Do-It-Yourself Biology movement, a global movement spreading the use of biotechnology beyond traditional academic and industrial institutions and into the lay public. Practitioners include a broad mix of am...

Computer-based coding of free-text job descriptions to efficiently identify occupations in epidemiological studies.

Occupational and environmental medicine
BACKGROUND: Mapping job titles to standardised occupation classification (SOC) codes is an important step in identifying occupational risk factors in epidemiological studies. Because manual coding is time-consuming and has moderate reliability, we de...

Adverse Events in Robotic Surgery: A Retrospective Study of 14 Years of FDA Data.

PloS one
BACKGROUND: Use of robotic systems for minimally invasive surgery has rapidly increased during the last decade. Understanding the causes of adverse events and their impact on patients in robot-assisted surgery will help improve systems and operationa...