Care home resident identification: A comparison of address matching methods with Natural Language Processing.

Background: Care home residents are a highly vulnerable group, but identifying care home residents in routine data is challenging. This study aimed to develop and validate Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods to identify care home residents from primary care address records.

Methods: The proposed system applies an NLP sequential filtering and preprocessing of text, then the calculation of similarity scores between general practice (GP) addresses and care home registered addresses.

Direct Oral Anticoagulants Versus Warfarin in Patients With Isolated Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia or Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia With Thrombosis.

No existing studies compare oral anticoagulants to treat heparin-induced thrombocytopenia with or without thrombosis (HIT/HITT). This retrospective study evaluated thrombotic and bleeding outcomes in adults treated for HIT/HITT with a direct oral anticoagulant (DOAC) or warfarin between 2012 and 2023 within the Ochsner Health System. Patients with mechanical heart valves, valvular atrial fibrillation, antiphospholipid syndrome, active malignancy, or venous thromboembolism (VTE) within the previous 6 months were excluded.

Longitudinal genomic surveillance of a UK intensive care unit shows a lack of patient colonisation by multi-drug-resistant Gram-negative bacterial pathogens.

Vulnerable patients in an intensive care unit (ICU) setting are at high risk of infection from bacteria including gut-colonising and species. Complex ICU procedures often depend on successful antimicrobial treatment, underscoring the importance of understanding the extent of patient colonisation by multi-drug-resistant organisms (MDROs) in large UK ICUs. Previous work on ICUs globally uncovered high rates of colonisation by transmission of MDROs, but the situation in UK ICUs is less understood.