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{"title":"Applying Robotic Process Automation to Monitor Business Processes in Hospital Information Systems: Mixed Method Approach.","authors":"Adam Park, Se Young Jung, Ilha Yune, Ho-Young Lee","doi":"10.2196/59801","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2196/59801","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Electronic medical records (EMRs) have undergone significant changes due to advancements in technology, including artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, and cloud services. The increasing complexity within health care systems necessitates enhanced process reengineering and system monitoring approaches. Robotic process automation (RPA) provides a user-centric approach to monitoring system complexity by mimicking end user interactions, thus presenting potential improvements in system performance and monitoring.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>This study aimed to explore the application of RPA in monitoring the complexities of EMR systems within a hospital environment, focusing on RPA's ability to perform end-to-end performance monitoring that closely reflects real-time user experiences.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The research was conducted at Seoul National University Bundang Hospital using a mixed methods approach. It included the iterative development and integration of RPA bots programmed to simulate and monitor typical user interactions with the hospital's EMR system. Quantitative data from RPA process outputs and qualitative insights from interviews with system engineers and managers were used to evaluate the effectiveness of RPA in system monitoring.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>RPA bots effectively identified and reported system inefficiencies and failures, providing a bridge between end user experiences and engineering assessments. The bots were particularly useful in detecting delays and errors immediately following system updates or interactions with external services. Over 3 years, RPA monitoring highlighted discrepancies between user-reported experiences and traditional engineering metrics, with the bots frequently identifying critical system issues that were not evident from standard component-level monitoring.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>RPA enhances system monitoring by providing insights that reflect true end user experiences, which are often overlooked by traditional monitoring methods. The study confirms the potential of RPA to act as a comprehensive monitoring tool within complex health care systems, suggesting that RPA can significantly contribute to the maintenance and improvement of EMR systems by providing a more accurate and timely reflection of system performance and user satisfaction.</p>","PeriodicalId":56334,"journal":{"name":"JMIR Medical Informatics","volume":"13 ","pages":"e59801"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143576067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Role of AI in Cardiovascular Event Monitoring and Early Detection: Scoping Literature Review.","authors":"Luis B Elvas, Ana Almeida, Joao C Ferreira","doi":"10.2196/64349","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2196/64349","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Artificial intelligence (AI) has shown exponential growth and advancements, revolutionizing various fields, including health care. However, domain adaptation remains a significant challenge, as machine learning (ML) models often need to be applied across different health care settings with varying patient demographics and practices. This issue is critical for ensuring effective and equitable AI deployment. Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), the leading cause of global mortality with 17.9 million annual deaths, encompass conditions like coronary heart disease and hypertension. The increasing availability of medical data, coupled with AI advancements, offers new opportunities for early detection and intervention in cardiovascular events, leveraging AI's capacity to analyze complex datasets and uncover critical patterns.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>This review aims to examine AI methodologies combined with medical data to advance the intelligent monitoring and detection of CVDs, identifying areas for further research to enhance patient outcomes and support early interventions.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This review follows the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) methodology to ensure a rigorous and transparent literature review process. This structured approach facilitated a comprehensive overview of the current state of research in this field.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Through the methodology used, 64 documents were retrieved, of which 40 documents met the inclusion criteria. The reviewed papers demonstrate advancements in AI and ML for CVD detection, classification, prediction, diagnosis, and patient monitoring. Techniques such as ensemble learning, deep neural networks, and feature selection improve prediction accuracy over traditional methods. ML models predict cardiovascular events and risks, with applications in monitoring via wearable technology. The integration of AI in health care supports early detection, personalized treatment, and risk assessment, possibly improving the management of CVDs.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The study concludes that AI and ML techniques can improve the accuracy of CVD classification, prediction, diagnosis, and monitoring. The integration of multiple data sources and noninvasive methods supports continuous monitoring and early detection. These advancements help enhance CVD management and patient outcomes, indicating the potential for AI to offer more precise and cost-effective solutions in health care.</p>","PeriodicalId":56334,"journal":{"name":"JMIR Medical Informatics","volume":"13 ","pages":"e64349"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143568881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Correlation Between Diagnosis-Related Group Weights and Nursing Time in the Cardiology Department: Cross-Sectional Study.","authors":"Chen Lv, Yi-Hong Gong, Xiu-Hua Wang, Jun An, Qian Wang, Jing Han, Xiao-Feng Chen","doi":"10.2196/65549","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2196/65549","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Diagnosis-related group (DRG) payment has become the main form of medical expense settlements, and its application is becoming increasingly extensive.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>This study aimed to explore the correlation between DRG weights and nursing time and to develop a predictive model for nursing time in the cardiology department based on DRG weights and other factors.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A convenience sampling method was used to select patients who were hospitalized in the cardiology ward of Beijing Chest Hospital between April 2023 and April 2024. Nursing time was measured by direct and indirect nursing time. To determine the distributions of nursing time based on different demographics, a Pearson correlation was used to analyze the relationship between DRG weight and nursing time, and a multiple linear regression was used to determine the influencing factors of total nursing time.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 103 subjects were included in this study. The DRG weights were positively correlated with direct nursing time (r=0.480; P<.001), indirect nursing time (r=0.394; P<.001), and total nursing time (r=0.448; P<.001). Moreover, age was positively correlated with the 3 nursing times (direct: r=0.235; indirect: r=0.192; total: r=0.235; all P<.001). The activities of daily living (ADL) score on admission was negatively correlated with the 3 nursing times (direct: r=-0.316; indirect: r=-0.252; total: r=-0.301; all P<.001). In addition, the nursing level on the first day of admission was positively correlated with the 3 nursing times (direct: r=0.333; indirect: r=0.332; total: r=0.352; all P<.001). Furthermore, the multivariate analysis found that the nursing level on the first day of admission, complications or comorbidities, DRG weight, and ADL score on admission were the influencing factors of nursing time (R2=0.328; F5,97=69.58; P<.001).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>DRG weight showed a strong correlation with nursing time and could be used to predict nursing time, which may assist in nursing resource allocation in cardiology departments.</p>","PeriodicalId":56334,"journal":{"name":"JMIR Medical Informatics","volume":"13 ","pages":"e65549"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143558925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Linking Electronic Health Record Prescribing Data and Pharmacy Dispensing Records to Identify Patient-Level Factors Associated With Psychotropic Medication Receipt: Retrospective Study.","authors":"Peng Wu, Jillian H Hurst, Alexis French, Michael Chrestensen, Benjamin A Goldstein","doi":"10.2196/63740","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2196/63740","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background: &lt;/strong&gt;Pharmacoepidemiology studies using electronic health record (EHR) data typically rely on medication prescriptions to determine which patients have received a medication. However, such data do not affirmatively indicate whether these prescriptions have been filled. External dispensing databases can bridge this information gap; however, few established methods exist for linking EHR data and pharmacy dispensing records.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Objective: &lt;/strong&gt;We described a process for linking EHR prescribing data with pharmacy dispensing records from Surescripts. As a use case, we considered the prescriptions and resulting fills for psychotropic medications among pediatric patients. We evaluated how dispensing information affects identifying patients receiving prescribed medications and assessing the association between filling prescriptions and subsequent health behaviors.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Methods: &lt;/strong&gt;This retrospective study identified all new psychotropic prescriptions to patients younger than 18 years of age at Duke University Health System in 2021. We linked dispensing to prescribing data using proximate dates and matching codes between RxNorm concept unique identifiers and National Drug Codes. We described demographic, clinical, and service use characteristics to assess differences between patients who did versus did not fill prescriptions. We fit a least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) regression model to evaluate the predictability of a fill. We then fit time-to-event models to assess the association between whether a patient filled a prescription and a future provider visit.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Results: &lt;/strong&gt;We identified 1254 pediatric patients with a new psychotropic prescription. In total, 976 (77.8%) patients filled their prescriptions within 30 days of their prescribing encounters. Thus, we set 30 days as a cut point for defining a valid prescription fill. Patients who filled prescriptions differed from those who did not in several key factors. Those who did not fill had slightly higher BMIs, lived in more disadvantaged neighborhoods, were more likely to have public insurance or self-pay, and included a higher proportion of male patients. Patients with prior well-child visits or prescriptions from primary care providers were more likely to fill. Additionally, patients with anxiety diagnoses and those prescribed selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors were more likely to fill prescriptions. The LASSO model achieved an area under the receiver operator characteristic curve of 0.816. The time to the follow-up visit with the same provider was censored at 90 days after the initial encounter. Patients who filled prescriptions showed higher levels of follow-up visits. The marginal hazard ratio of a follow-up visit with the same provider was 1.673 (95% CI 1.463-1.913) for patients who filled their prescriptions. Using the LASSO model as a propensity-based weight, we calculated the weighted hazard ra","PeriodicalId":56334,"journal":{"name":"JMIR Medical Informatics","volume":"13 ","pages":"e63740"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143544648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Performance Improvement of a Natural Language Processing Tool for Extracting Patient Narratives Related to Medical States From Japanese Pharmaceutical Care Records by Increasing the Amount of Training Data: Natural Language Processing Analysis and Validation Study.","authors":"Yukiko Ohno, Tohru Aomori, Tomohiro Nishiyama, Riri Kato, Reina Fujiki, Haruki Ishikawa, Keisuke Kiyomiya, Minae Isawa, Mayumi Mochizuki, Eiji Aramaki, Hisakazu Ohtani","doi":"10.2196/68863","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2196/68863","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Patients' oral expressions serve as valuable sources of clinical information to improve pharmacotherapy. Natural language processing (NLP) is a useful approach for analyzing unstructured text data, such as patient narratives. However, few studies have focused on using NLP for narratives in the Japanese language.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>We aimed to develop a high-performance NLP system for extracting clinical information from patient narratives by examining the performance progression with a gradual increase in the amount of training data.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We used subjective texts from the pharmaceutical care records of Keio University Hospital from April 1, 2018, to March 31, 2019, comprising 12,004 records from 6559 cases. After preprocessing, we annotated diseases and symptoms within the texts. We then trained and evaluated a deep learning model (bidirectional encoder representations from transformers combined with a conditional random field [BERT-CRF]) through 10-fold cross-validation. The annotated data were divided into 10 subsets, and the amount of training data was progressively increased over 10 steps. We also analyzed the causes of errors. Finally, we applied the developed system to the analysis of case report texts to evaluate its usability for texts from other sources.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The F₁-score of the system improved from 0.67 to 0.82 as the amount of training data increased from 1200 to 12,004 records. The F₁-score reached 0.78 with 3600 records and was largely similar thereafter. As performance improved, errors from incorrect extractions decreased significantly, which resulted in an increase in precision. For case reports, the F₁-score also increased from 0.34 to 0.41 as the training dataset expanded from 1200 to 12,004 records. Performance was lower for extracting symptoms from case report texts compared with pharmaceutical care records, suggesting that this system is more specialized for analyzing subjective data from pharmaceutical care records.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>We successfully developed a high-performance system specialized in analyzing subjective data from pharmaceutical care records by training a large dataset, with near-complete saturation of system performance with about 3600 training records. This system will be useful for monitoring symptoms, offering benefits for both clinical practice and research.</p>","PeriodicalId":56334,"journal":{"name":"JMIR Medical Informatics","volume":"13 ","pages":"e68863"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143575725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Current Landscape and Future Directions for Mental Health Conversational Agents for Youth: Scoping Review.","authors":"Jinkyung Katie Park, Vivek K Singh, Pamela Wisniewski","doi":"10.2196/62758","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2196/62758","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Background: &lt;/strong&gt;Conversational agents (CAs; chatbots) are systems with the ability to interact with users using natural human dialogue. They are increasingly used to support interactive knowledge discovery of sensitive topics such as mental health topics. While much of the research on CAs for mental health has focused on adult populations, the insights from such research may not apply to CAs for youth.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Objective: &lt;/strong&gt;This study aimed to comprehensively evaluate the state-of-the-art research on mental health CAs for youth.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Methods: &lt;/strong&gt;Following PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) guidelines, we identified 39 peer-reviewed studies specific to mental health CAs designed for youth across 4 databases, including ProQuest, Scopus, Web of Science, and PubMed. We conducted a scoping review of the literature to evaluate the characteristics of research on mental health CAs designed for youth, the design and computational considerations of mental health CAs for youth, and the evaluation outcomes reported in the research on mental health CAs for youth.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Results: &lt;/strong&gt;We found that many mental health CAs (11/39, 28%) were designed as older peers to provide therapeutic or educational content to promote youth mental well-being. All CAs were designed based on expert knowledge, with a few that incorporated inputs from youth. The technical maturity of CAs was in its infancy, focusing on building prototypes with rule-based models to deliver prewritten content, with limited safety features to respond to imminent risk. Research findings suggest that while youth appreciate the 24/7 availability of friendly or empathetic conversation on sensitive topics with CAs, they found the content provided by CAs to be limited. Finally, we found that most (35/39, 90%) of the reviewed studies did not address the ethical aspects of mental health CAs, while youth were concerned about the privacy and confidentiality of their sensitive conversation data.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Conclusions: &lt;/strong&gt;Our study highlights the need for researchers to continue to work together to align evidence-based research on mental health CAs for youth with lessons learned on how to best deliver these technologies to youth. Our review brings to light mental health CAs needing further development and evaluation. The new trend of large language model-based CAs can make such technologies more feasible. However, the privacy and safety of the systems should be prioritized. Although preliminary evidence shows positive trends in mental health CAs, long-term evaluative research with larger sample sizes and robust research designs is needed to validate their efficacy. More importantly, collaboration between youth and clinical experts is essential from the early design stages through to the final evaluation to develop safe, effective, and youth-centered mental health chatbots. Finally, best practices for risk mit","PeriodicalId":56334,"journal":{"name":"JMIR Medical Informatics","volume":"13 ","pages":"e62758"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143576069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Validation Tool (VaPCE) for Postcoordinated SNOMED CT Expressions: Development and Usability Study.","authors":"Tessa Ohlsen, Viola Hofer, Josef Ingenerf","doi":"10.2196/67984","DOIUrl":"10.2196/67984","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The digitalization of health care has increased the demand for efficient data exchange, emphasizing semantic interoperability. SNOMED Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT), a comprehensive terminology with over 360,000 medical concepts, supports this need. However, it cannot cover all medical scenarios, particularly in complex cases. To address this, SNOMED CT allows postcoordination, where users combine precoordinated concepts with new expressions. Despite SNOMED CT's potential, the creation and validation of postcoordinated expressions (PCEs) remain challenging due to complex syntactic and semantic rules.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>This work aims to develop a tool that validates postcoordinated SNOMED CT expressions, focusing on providing users with detailed, automated correction instructions for syntactic and semantic errors. The goal is not just validation, but also offering user-friendly, actionable suggestions for improving PCEs.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A tool was created using the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource (FHIR) service $validate-code and the terminology server Ontoserver to check the correctness of PCEs. When errors are detected, the tool processes the SNOMED CT Concept Model in JSON format and applies predefined error categories. For each error type, specific correction suggestions are generated and displayed to users. The key added value of the tool is in generating specific correction suggestions for each identified error, which are displayed to the users. The tool was integrated into a web application, where users can validate individual PCEs or bulk-upload files. The tool was tested with real existing PCEs, which were used as input and validated. In the event of errors, appropriate error messages were generated as output.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In the validation of 136 PCEs from 304 FHIR Questionnaires, 18 (13.2%) PCEs were invalid, with the most common errors being invalid attribute values. Additionally, 868 OncoTree codes were evaluated, resulting in 161 (20.9%) PCEs containing inactive concepts, which were successfully replaced with valid alternatives. A user survey reflects a favorable evaluation of the tool's functionality. Participants found the error categorization and correction suggestions to be precise, offering clear guidance for addressing issues. However, there is potential for enhancement, particularly regarding the level of detail in the error messages.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The validation tool significantly improves the accuracy of postcoordinated SNOMED CT expressions by not only identifying errors but also offering detailed correction instructions. This approach supports health care professionals in ensuring that their PCEs are syntactically and semantically valid, enhancing data quality and interoperability across systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":56334,"journal":{"name":"JMIR Medical Informatics","volume":"13 ","pages":"e67984"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143525336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Predictive Value of Frailty on Outcomes of Patients With Cirrhosis: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.","authors":"Wen-Zhen Tang, Sheng-Rui Zhu, Shu-Tian Mo, Yuan-Xi Xie, Zheng-Ke-Ke Tan, Yan-Juan Teng, Kui Jia","doi":"10.2196/60683","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2196/60683","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Frailty is one of the most common symptoms in patients with cirrhosis. Many researchers have identified it as a prognostic factor for patients with cirrhosis. However, no quantitative meta-analysis has evaluated the prognostic value of frailty in patients with cirrhosis.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to assess the prognostic significance of frailty in patients with cirrhosis.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The systematic review was conducted in accordance with PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) recommendations. We conducted a comprehensive search of the literature using databases such as PubMed, Cochrane Library, Embase, and Web of Science, as well as China National Knowledge Infrastructure, encompassing the period from inception to 22 December 2023. Data were extracted for frailty to predict adverse outcomes in patients with cirrhosis. RevMan (version 5.3) and R (version 4.2.2) were used to assess the extracted data.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 26 studies with 9597 patients with cirrhosis were included. Compared with patients having low or no frailty, the frail group had a higher mortality rate (relative ratio, RR=2.07, 95% CI 1.82-2.34, P<.001), higher readmission rate (RR=1.50, 95% CI 1.22-1.84, P<.001), and lower quality of life (RR=5.78, 95% CI 2.25-14.82, P<.001). The summary receiver operator characteristic (SROC) curve of frailty for mortality in patients with cirrhosis showed that the false positive rate (FPR) was 0.25 (95% CI 0.17-0.34), diagnostic odds ratio (DOR) was 4.17 (95% CI 2.93-5.93), sensitivity was 0.54 (95% CI 0.39-0.69), and specificity was 0.73 (95% CI 0.64-0.81). The SROC curve of readmission showed that the FPR, DOR, sensitivity, and specificity were 0.39 (95% CI 0.17-0.66), 1.38 (95% CI 0.64-2.93), 0.46 (95% CI 0.28-0.64), and 0.60 (95% CI 0.28-0.85), respectively.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This meta-analysis demonstrated that frailty is a reliable prognostic predictor of outcomes in patients with cirrhosis. To enhance the prognosis of patients with cirrhosis, more studies on frailty screening are required.</p>","PeriodicalId":56334,"journal":{"name":"JMIR Medical Informatics","volume":"13 ","pages":"e60683"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143525340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Predicting Agitation-Sedation Levels in Intensive Care Unit Patients: Development of an Ensemble Model.","authors":"Pei-Yu Dai, Pei-Yi Lin, Ruey-Kai Sheu, Shu-Fang Liu, Yu-Cheng Wu, Chieh-Liang Wu, Wei-Lin Chen, Chien-Chung Huang, Guan-Yin Lin, Lun-Chi Chen","doi":"10.2196/63601","DOIUrl":"10.2196/63601","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Agitation and sedation management is critical in intensive care as it affects patient safety. Traditional nursing assessments suffer from low frequency and subjectivity. Automating these assessments can boost intensive care unit (ICU) efficiency, treatment capacity, and patient safety.</p><p><strong>Objectives: </strong>The aim of this study was to develop a machine-learning based assessment of agitation and sedation.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Using data from the Taichung Veterans General Hospital ICU database (2020), an ensemble learning model was developed for classifying the levels of agitation and sedation. Different ensemble learning model sequences were compared. In addition, an interpretable artificial intelligence approach, SHAP (Shapley additive explanations), was employed for explanatory analysis.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>With 20 features and 121,303 data points, the random forest model achieved high area under the curve values across all models (sedation classification: 0.97; agitation classification: 0.88). The ensemble learning model enhanced agitation sensitivity (0.82) while maintaining high AUC values across all categories (all >0.82). The model explanations aligned with clinical experience.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This study proposes an ICU agitation-sedation assessment automation using machine learning, enhancing efficiency and safety. Ensemble learning improves agitation sensitivity while maintaining accuracy. Real-time monitoring and future digital integration have the potential for advancements in intensive care.</p>","PeriodicalId":56334,"journal":{"name":"JMIR Medical Informatics","volume":"13 ","pages":"e63601"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11882103/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143517502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Identifying Patient-Reported Care Experiences in Free-Text Survey Comments: Topic Modeling Study.","authors":"Brian Steele, Paul Fairie, Kyle Kemp, Adam G D'Souza, Matthias Wilms, Maria Jose Santana","doi":"10.2196/63466","DOIUrl":"10.2196/63466","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Patient-reported experience surveys allow administrators, clinicians, and researchers to quantify and improve health care by receiving feedback directly from patients. Existing research has focused primarily on quantitative analysis of survey items, but these measures may collect optional free-text comments. These comments can provide insights for health systems but may not be analyzed due to limited resources and the complexity of traditional textual analysis. However, advances in machine learning-based natural language processing provide opportunities to learn from this traditionally underused data source.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>This study aimed to apply natural language processing to model topics found in free-text comments of patient-reported experience surveys.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems-derived patient experience surveys were collected and linked to administrative inpatient records by the provincial health services organization responsible for inpatient care. Unsupervised topic modeling with automated labeling was performed with BERTopic. Sentiment analysis was performed to further assist in topic description.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Between April 2016 and February 2020, 43.4% (43,522/100,272) adult patients and 46.9% (3501/7464) pediatric caregivers included free-text responses on completed patient experience surveys. Topic models identified 86 topics among adult survey responses and 35 topics among pediatric responses that included elements of care not currently surveyed by existing questionnaires. Frequent topics were generally positive.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>We found that with limited tuning, BERTopic identified care experience topics with interpretable automated labeling. Results are discussed in the context of person-centered care, patient safety, and health care quality improvement. Furthermore, we note the opportunity for the identification of temporal and site-specific trends as a method to identify patient care and safety concerns. As the use of patient experience measurement increases in health care, we discuss how machine learning can be leveraged to provide additional insight on patient experiences.</p>","PeriodicalId":56334,"journal":{"name":"JMIR Medical Informatics","volume":"13 ","pages":"e63466"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11875393/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143494854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}