Reasons for Hospitalizations and Emergency Department Visits Among Patients with Essential Tremor.

Background: Prior studies suggest that patients with essential tremor (ET) have increased rates of healthcare utilization, but the reason for this increased use is unknown. The objective of this study was to evaluate the reasons for healthcare use among ET patients.

Methods: This was a retrospective cross-sectional study of ET patients with an admission or emergency department (ED) visit at a tertiary health system from 2018-2023.

Supervised machine learning to validate a novel scoring system for the prediction of disease remission of functional pituitary adenomas following transsphenoidal surgery.

Functional pituitary adenomas (FPAs) are associated with hormonal hypersecretion resulting in systemic endocrinopathies and increased mortality. The heterogenous composition of the FPA population has made modeling predictive factors of postoperative disease remission a challenge. Here, we aim to define a novel scoring system predictive of disease remission following transsphenoidal surgery (TSS) for FPAs and validate our process using supervised machine learning (SML).