April 29, 2022
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04/14/2022
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In this systematic review, Stone et al explore the makeshift nature of the current length of stay prediction approaches and highlight the need for a unified framework to be adopted which could yield a more reliable estimate
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04/07/2022
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With health and fitness apps becoming more common, Lam et al conduct a systematic review to identify and understand current advances in the feasibility, system designs, and effectiveness of Internet of Things-enabled devices to support weight management in children.
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04/07/2022
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Melotte and Kejriwal aim to evaluate and compare established machine learning models using public US-based Twitter data to determine which models perform best in predicting vaccine hesitancy based on county, and find that learning-based models outperform non learning-based models by significant margins.
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03/31/2022
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In this global review Celi et al show that more than half of all datasets used for clinical AI originate from either the US or China, with discrepancies in gender and specialty representation.
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04/05/2022
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In this retrospective cross-sectional study based on a multi-center critical care database, Singh et al, find that mortality risk prediction models developed in one hospital or geographic region exhibited lack of generalizability to different hospitals or regions. Moreover, distribution of clinical variables significantly varied across hospitals and regions.
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03/17/2022
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Patterns of illness recovery and decline may be important to understand the illness course during a critical care admission. This paper from Kausch et al, highlights a novel approach to characterizing these patterns of change in illness severity, revealing that higher entropy is associated with more negative outcomes during a pediatric critical care admission.
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03/15/2022
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From Yejin Kim, et al.
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02/17/2022
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From Julia Amann and Dennis Vetter, et al
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03/09/2022
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From Samarth Bhatia, Yukti Makhija, and Sneha Jayaswal, et al
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02/24/2022
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From Boutheina Leblalta, et al.
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