Detection and prevention of adverse events and, in particular, adverse drug events (ADEs), is an important problem in health care today. We describe the implementation and evaluation of four variations on the simple Bayes model for identifying ADE-related discharge summaries. Our results show that these probabilistic techniques achieve an ROC curve area of up to 0.77 in correctly determining wh...

Methods BALB/cJ mice were experimentally sensitized by intragastric (i.g.) administration of highly purified BLG mixed with Cholera toxin (CT, 10μg) on days 1, 8, 15, 22, 26 and 33 (n=7/group). Control mice received CT alone (n=7) and 10 mice were left untreated (naïve mice). Allergic sensitization to BLG was confirmed by assaying BLG-specific IgE and IgG1 in sera collected on day 37. Mice admi...

OBJECTIVE Develop and test web services to retrieve and identify the most precise ICD-10-CM code(s) for a given clinical encounter. Facilitate creation of user interfaces that 1) provide an initial shortlist of candidate codes, ideally visible on a single screen; and 2) enable code refinement. MATERIALS AND METHODS To satisfy our high-level use cases, the analysis and design process involved ...

This paper presents a preliminary experimental study of the performance of basic sparse matrix computations on the CM-200 and the CM-5. We concentrate on examining various ways of performing general sparse matrix-vector operations and the basic primitives on which these are based. We compare various data structures for storing sparse matrices and their corresponding matrix – vector operations. ...

PURPOSE Little is known about the role of International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) codes for identification of specific allergic reactions in the emergency department (ED). METHODS Investigators in 10 EDs reviewed 1395 charts of consecutive patients presenting with food allergy (ICD-9-CM codes 693.1 and 995.60 to 995.69) and insect sting aller...

OBJECTIVE To describe and analyse hospitalisations for adverse drug reactions (ADRs) involving anticoagulants. We also analysed the progress of the reactions over time, the factors related with ADRs. DESIGN A retrospective, descriptive, epidemiological study. SETTING This study used the Spanish National Hospital Discharge Database (Conjunto Mínimo Básico de Datos, CMBD), over a 4-year perio...

The transition to ICD-10-CM/PCS has expanded educational opportunities for educators and trainers who are taking on the responsibility of training coders on the new system. Coding education currently faces multiple challenges in the areas of how to train the new workforce, what might be the most efficient method of providing that training, how much retraining of the current workforce with ICD-9...