Distribution-Based Similarity Measures Applied to Laboratory Results Matching.

The use of international laboratory terminologies inside hospital information systems is required to conduct data reuse analyses through inter-hospital databases. While most terminology matching techniques performing semantic interoperability are language-based, another strategy is to use distribution matching that performs terms matching based on the statistical similarity. In this work, our objective is to design and assess a structured framework to perform distribution matching on concepts described by continuous variables.

Analysis of Hip Fractures in France During the First COVID-19 Lockdown in Spring 2020.

Importance: The COVID-19 pandemic has posed a number of unprecedented challenges to the health care system in France, where hip fractures in the elderly population are a major public health concern.

Objective: To explore the association of the first nationwide COVID-19 lockdown in France with the absolute number of hip fractures among patients 50 years or older.

Design, Setting, And Participants: This retrospective cohort study used data from the French national hospitals database to identify patients 50 years or older who were hospitalized for hip fracture in France from January to July 2019 and January to July 2020.

Clinical Decision Support Systems and Computerized Provider Order Entry: Contributions from 2020.

Objectives: To summarize research contributions published in 2020 in the field of clinical decision support systems (CDSS) and computerized provider order entry (CPOE), and select the best papers for the Decision Support section of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) Yearbook 2021.

Methods: Two bibliographic databases were searched for papers referring to clinical decision support systems. From search results, section editors established a list of candidate best papers, which were then peer-reviewed by seven external reviewers.

Retrograde Extraperitoneal Laparoscopic Prostatectomy (RELP). A Prospective Study about 1,000 Consecutive Patients, with Oncological and Functional Results.

Purpose: Usual laparoscopic surgery of localized prostate cancer uses antegrade dissection. We describe and evaluate the original RELP (Retrograde Extraperitoneal Laparoscopic Prostatectomy).

Materials And Methods: A prospective cohort of 1005 patients with clinical localized cancer prostate were operated from December 1999 to September 2013, in Lyon (France), and followed up to 172 months (median: 60 months).