2021
Comprehensive Characterization of COVID-19 Patients with Repeatedly Positive SARS-CoV-2 Tests Using a Large U.S. Electronic Health Record Database
Dong X, Zhou Y, Shu X, Bernstam E, Stern R, Aronoff D, Xu H, Lipworth L. Comprehensive Characterization of COVID-19 Patients with Repeatedly Positive SARS-CoV-2 Tests Using a Large U.S. Electronic Health Record Database. Microbiology Spectrum 2021, 9: 10.1128/spectrum.00327-21. PMID: 34406805, PMCID: PMC8552669, DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.00327-21.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPositive SARS-CoV-2 testSARS-CoV-2 testSecond positive testElectronic health record databaseCases of reinfectionHealth record databasePositive testPositive SARS-CoV-2 PCR test resultsSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) testingSARS-CoV-2 PCR test resultsRecord databaseSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2Intensive care unit admissionAcute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2SARS-CoV-2 infectionRespiratory syndrome coronavirus 2Long-term health consequencesLarge electronic health record databasePotential long-term health consequencesCare unit admissionOverweight/obeseChronic medical conditionsPositive molecular testCOVID-19 patientsSyndrome coronavirus 2
2019
Time-sensitive clinical concept embeddings learned from large electronic health records
Xiang Y, Xu J, Si Y, Li Z, Rasmy L, Zhou Y, Tiryaki F, Li F, Zhang Y, Wu Y, Jiang X, Zheng W, Zhi D, Tao C, Xu H. Time-sensitive clinical concept embeddings learned from large electronic health records. BMC Medical Informatics And Decision Making 2019, 19: 58. PMID: 30961579, PMCID: PMC6454598, DOI: 10.1186/s12911-019-0766-3.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsConcept similarity measurePositive pointwise mutual informationConcept embeddingsSimilarity measurePredictive modeling tasksLarge electronic health recordTime-sensitive informationPointwise mutual informationImportant research areaDeep learningElectronic health recordsMedical domainLarge electronic health record databaseWord2vec embeddingsTemporal dependenciesLearning methodsFastText algorithmModeling tasksResultsOur experimentsExtrinsic evaluationIntrinsic evaluationMutual informationHealth recordsDistributional representationsEmbedding