Publications by authors named "M Gurley"
Article Synopsis
- * The OHDSI consortium's NLP Working Group created methods and tools to improve the use of textual data in observational studies, detailing a framework for integrating this information into the OMOP Common Data Model (CDM).
- * The authors also highlight the workflow for extracting and transforming data from clinical notes, share current applications of the NLP solution, and discuss challenges and lessons learned to aid other researchers in implementing NLP in their studies.
Patients with a history of malignancy have been shown to be at an increased risk of COVID-19-related morbidity and mortality. Poorer clinical outcomes in that patient population are likely due to the underlying systemic illness, comorbidities, and the cytotoxic and immunosuppressive anti-tumor treatments they are subjected to. We identified 416 cancer patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection being managed for their malignancy at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, Illinois, between March and July of 2020.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To determine whether phosphodiesterase-5 inhibitor documentation is associated with biochemical relapse-free and overall survival of patients with prostate cancer treated with radical prostatectomy.
Materials And Methods: We undertook a retrospective cohort analysis of 3,100 patients with prostate cancer treated with radical prostatectomy between 2003 and 2015. The patients were categorized as a phosphodiesterase- 5- inhibitor user or non-user.