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Automatic Detection of Osteoporosis in Electronic Consultation (eConsult) Service Using Natural Language Processing [Health care informatics]

Annals of Family Medicine

Outcome Measures We used a combination of evaluation indices, such as accuracy, precision, recall, to decide the optimum feature engineering approach and model. Results Training sample from eConsult, TFIDF transformation with the Stochastic Gradient Descent model could distinguish osteoporosis cases by 91% accuracy.

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Artificial Intelligence: Charlotta Lindvall, Matt DeCamp, Sei Lee

GeriPal

Audio: [electronic voice] Alex Smith has been taken over by an artificial intelligence. So there’s some stuff out there like that, but also using AI to determine who at high risk and should get a palliative care consult. Matt: We have seen pilot level studies, interventions like that one to do clinical ethics consultation.

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Improving Nursing Home Quality: Jasmine Travers, Alice Bonner, Isaac Longobardi, and Mike Wasserman

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary In April 2022, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) issued a report on how the United States delivers, regulates, finances, and measures the quality of nursing home care. Mike: Electronic record keeping, Eric, is the government’s gift to defense attorneys.

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Nudges for Prognosis and Comfort Care in the ICU: Kate Courtright, Scott Halpern, & Jaspal Singh

GeriPal

Prior podcasts on the ethics of nudging , and a different trial conducted by Kate and Scott in which the default for hospitalized seriously ill patients was to receive a palliative care consult. You’re a little bit different from an electronic prompt and a lot more expensive. What is sludge? I highly encourage you.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

And we looked at the electronic health records at both of those hospital systems, the MGB network, folks who had fee-for-service Medicare coverage from October 2015 to about September 2017, 6,800 patients. And that these serious illness conversations ought to involve more palliative care consultations, I think. Yep, for geriatrics?