Publications by authors named "A E Khoury"
Background: The increasing prevalence of cognitive impairment and dementia threatens global health, necessitating the development of accessible tools for detection of cognitive impairment. This study explores using a transformer-based approach to detect cognitive impairment using acoustic markers of spontaneous speech.
Method: Recordings of unstructured interviews from baseline visits were obtained from participants of The 90+ Study, a longitudinal study of individuals older than 90 years.
Background: Spontaneous speech is easily obtainable and has the potential to become an accessible and low-cost marker for cognitive function. The time-consuming and labor-intensive nature of speech analysis has been a major obstacle to utilizing this promising tool. This study uses a novel transformer-based methodology to explore associations between spontaneous speech language features and global cognition.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) hospitalized for psychiatric emergencies (PE) represent a high-risk population, requiring immediate intervention. Overall survival and healthcare resource utilization were evaluated among MDD patients with PE (MDD-PE) vs without PE (MDD-nonPE) using data from the Hungarian National Health Insurance Fund database (2009 to 2020).
Methods: Patients with MDD were selected if they had at least (i) 2 records of MDD diagnosis, or (ii) 1 record of MDD diagnosis and 1 prescription of antidepressant within 90 days of each other between 01 January 2010 and 31 December 2020.
Background: Emergency medical services (EMS) must incorporate the patient's physiologic state and end-of-life wishes when determining whether to initiate and/or continue cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). This study aims to describe and analyze the use of advance directives (ADs) in CPR by emergency physicians (EPs).
Methods: A qualitative approach using semi-directed interviews was conducted.