Predicting patients who are likely to develop lupus nephritis of those newly diagnosed with systemic lupus erythematosus

KK Bechler, L Stolyar, E Steinberg… - AMIA Annual …, 2023 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Patients diagnosed with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) suffer from a decreased
quality of life, an increased risk of medical complications, and an increased risk of death. In …

[HTML][HTML] Principled estimation and evaluation of treatment effect heterogeneity: A case study application to dabigatran for patients with atrial fibrillation

Y Xu, K Bechler, A Callahan, N Shah - Journal of biomedical informatics, 2023 - Elsevier
Objective: To apply the latest guidance for estimating and evaluating heterogeneous treatment
effects (HTEs) in an end-to-end case study of the Long-term Anticoagulation Therapy (RE-…

[HTML][HTML] Predicting unplanned 7-day intensive care unit readmissions with machine learning models for improved discharge risk assessment

K Shi, V Ho, JJ Song, K Bechler… - AMIA Summits on …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Unplanned readmission to the intensive care unit (ICU) confers excess morbidity and mortality.
We explore whether machine learning models can outperform the current standard, the …

[HTML][HTML] Anti-Smith Antibodies as a Predictive Factor for Developing Lupus Nephritis in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Patients: A Systematic Review

A Saleem, B Zeeshan, G Dissanayake, M Zergaw… - Cureus, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Lupus nephritis (LN) is the most frequent and lethal complication of systemic lupus
erythematosus (SLE), often presenting with subtle or no initial symptoms. Therefore, it is crucial to …

Harmonizing government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic

C Cheng, L Messerschmidt, I Bravo, M Waldbauer… - Scientific data, 2024 - nature.com
Public health and safety measures (PHSM) made in response to the COVID-19 pandemic
have been singular, rapid, and profuse compared to the content, speed, and volume of normal …

A General Guide for Harmonizing Data: Drawing Lessons from Harmonizing COVID-19 PHSM Data

C Cheng, L Messerschmidt, I Bravo, M Waldbauer… - 2023 - researchsquare.com
Data harmonization is an important method for generating the requisite datasets to support
big data analyses. To date however, articles about data harmonization are field-specific and …

Domain-Guided Representations are Superior for Machine Learning in Healthcare

SL Fleming - 2024 - search.proquest.com
Abstract Machine learning to support decision making in healthcare typically assumes a
sufficient representation of the patient's history for learning and inference, such that all …

[PDF][PDF] Students show off ice skating talents

A Skinner - griffinshare.fontbonne.edu
… "Baltimore Orioles pitching prospect Steve Bechler knew he had to drop a few pounds if he
was going to break into the major leagues. So when he cracked open the bottle ofXenadrine …

A pseudo-outcome-based framework to analyze treatment heterogeneity in survival data using electronic health records

N Bo, JH Jeong, E Forno, Y Ding - arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.01565, 2024 - arxiv.org
An important aspect of precision medicine focuses on characterizing diverse responses to
treatment due to unique patient characteristics, also known as heterogeneous treatment …

[BOOK][B] The effects of the Big Five personality factors and adverse childhood events on leadership emergence in an online violence prevention discussion group

A Clarke - 2016 - search.proquest.com
Though various Big Five personality traits have been shown to be predictive of Emergent
Leadership emergence within in person groups, the link between these had remained largely …