Development of a Natural Language Processing (NLP) model to automatically extract clinical data from electronic health records: results from an Italian comprehensive stroke center.

Introduction: Data collection often relies on time-consuming manual inputs, with a vast amount of information embedded in unstructured texts such as patients' medical records and clinical notes. Our study aims to develop a pipeline that combines active learning (AL) and NLP techniques to enhance data extraction in an acute ischemic stroke cohort.

Materials And Methods: Consecutive acute ischemic stroke patients who received reperfusion therapies at IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital were included.

A Cluster-Randomized Study of Technology-Assisted Health Coaching for Weight Management in Primary Care.

Purpose: We undertook a trial to test the efficacy of a technology-assisted health coaching intervention for weight management, called Goals for Eating and Moving (GEM), within primary care.

Methods: This cluster-randomized controlled trial enrolled 19 primary care teams with 63 clinicians; 9 teams were randomized to GEM and 10 to enhanced usual care (EUC). The GEM intervention included 1 in-person and up to 12 telephone-delivered coaching sessions.

The long Pentraxin PTX3 serves as an early predictive biomarker of co-infections in COVID-19.

Background: COVID-19 clinical course is highly variable and secondary infections contribute to COVID-19 complexity. Early detection of secondary infections is clinically relevant for patient outcome. Procalcitonin (PCT) and C-reactive protein (CRP) are the most used biomarkers of infections.

Protocol for a prospective, randomized, controlled trial of Mental Contrasting with Implementation Intentions (MCII) to enhance the effectiveness of VA's MOVE! weight management program: WOOP (Wish, Outcome, Obstacle, Plan) VA.

Introduction: Intensive weight management programs are effective but often have low enrollment and high attrition. Lack of motivation is a key psychological barrier to enrollment, engagement, and weight loss. Mental Contrasting with Implementation Intentions (MCII) is a unique imagery technique that increases motivation for behavior change.