Asthma underdiagnosis and overdiagnosis remain significant problems for healthcare systems worldwide and indicate considerable pain points with current guidelines and diagnostic methods; therefore, new, targeted approaches seem crucial. This study introduces a novel spirometry-based approach using digital tools for objective asthma diagnosis support. This was a single-centre (Warsaw Medical University, Poland) prospective cohort study.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Electronic health records (EHRs) contain data valuable for clinical research. However, they are in textual format and require manual encoding to databases, which is a lengthy and costly process. Natural language processing (NLP) is a computational technique that allows for text analysis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Electronic health records (EHR) are of great value for clinical research. However, EHR consists primarily of unstructured text which must be analysed by a human and coded into a database before data analysis- a time-consuming and costly process limiting research efficiency. Natural language processing (NLP) can facilitate data retrieval from unstructured text.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF. The quality of spirometry manoeuvres is crucial for correctly interpreting the values of spirometry parameters. A fundamental guideline for proper quality assessment is the American Thoracic Society and European Respiratory Society (ATS/ERS) Standards for spirometry, updated in 2019, which describe several start-of-test and end-of-test criteria which can be assessed automatically.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMost current algorithms for detecting atrial fibrillation (AF) rely on heart rate variability (HRV), and only a few studies analyse the variability of photopletysmography (PPG) waveform. This study aimed to compare morphological features of the PPG curve in patients with AF to those presenting a normal sinus rhythm (NSR) and evaluate their usefulness in AF detection.10 min PPG signals were obtained from patients with persistent/paroxysmal AF and NSR.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFlecainide, similar to encainide and propafenone, is IC class antiarrhythmic, inhibiting Nav1.5 sodium channels in heart muscle cells and modulates cardiac conduction. Despite its over 40-year presence in clinical practice, strong evidence and well-known safety profile, flecainide distribution in Europe has not always been equal.
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September 2022
(1) Background: Administrative data allows for time- and cost-efficient acquisition of large volumes of individual patient data invaluable for evaluation of the prevalence of diseases and clinical outcomes. The aim of the study was to evaluate the accuracy of data collected from the Polish National Health Fund (NHF), from a researcher's perspective, in regard to a cohort of atrial fibrillation patients. (2) Methods: NHF data regarding atrial fibrillation and common cardiovascular comorbidities was compared with the data collected manually from the individual patients' health records (IHR) collected in the retrospective CRAFT registry (NCT02987062).
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