Visualizing Nursing Narratives: An Evaluation of Latent Dirichlet Allocation Topic Modeling for Care Reports.

The increasing volume of unstructured textual data in healthcare, particularly in nursing care reports, presents both challenges and opportunities for enhancing patient care and operational efficiency. This study explores the application of Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic modeling to analyze free-text nursing narratives from inpatient stays in three different clinics, aiming to uncover the latent thematic structures within. Utilizing the R programming environment and the visualization tool LDAvis, we identified three main themes: "Patient Well-being," "Patient Mobility and Care Activities," and "Treatment and Pain Management," the latter combining two closely related but initially distinct topics due to their overlapping content.

Unveiling the Surge: A Comprehensive Analysis of the Stimulating Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Telemedicine and Its Academic Landscape.

The Covid-19 pandemic spurred an unprecedented shift towards digitalization, prompting a surge in telehealth practices. This paper explores the impact of the pandemic on telemedicine through a comprehensive analysis of scientific publications. Utilizing a bibliometric approach, the study examines trends in telemedicine research before and after the onset of Covid-19.

Quality and Effectiveness of AI Tools for Students and Researchers for Scientific Literature Review and Analysis.

This study scrutinizes free AI tools tailored for supporting literature review and analysis in academic research, emphasizing their response to direct inquiries. Through a targeted keyword search, we cataloged relevant AI tools and evaluated their output variation and source validity. Our results reveal a spectrum of response qualities, with some tools integrating non-academic sources and others depending on outdated information.

Understanding IT in Healthcare: Relevance and Training Needs of IT in Private Medical Practice.

Background: The integration of Information Technology (IT) into private medical practice is crucial in modern healthcare. Physicians managing office-related IT without proper knowledge risk operational inefficiencies and security.

Objectives: This study determines the relevance of specific IT topics in medical practice and identifies the training needs of physicians for enhancing IT competencies in healthcare.

CareNet Tyrol - Information System Success Assessment for Case & Care Management Service.

Background: CareNet is the IT-based tool for Case and Care Management (CCM) in Tyrol, which facilitates standardised documentation of CCM activities.

Objectives: Analysing the pilot usage of CareNet Tyrol.

Methods: Evaluation of the success and user experience of CareNet, expert interviews and a questionnaire-based assessment.

Transforming Clinical Information Systems: Empowering Healthcare through Telemedicine, Data Science, and Artificial Intelligence Applications.

Objective: In this synopsis, the editors of the Clinical Information Systems (CIS) section of the IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics overview recent research and propose a selection of best papers published in 2022 in the CIS field.

Methods: The editors follow a systematic approach to gather relevant articles and select the best papers for the section. This year, they updated the query to incorporate the topic of telemedicine and removed search terms related to geographic information systems.

Impact of Professional Background on Inter-Annotator Variability and Accuracy During Annotation of Clinical Notes.

Background: The aging population's need for treatment of chronic diseases is exhibiting a marked increase in urgency, with heart failure being one of the most severe diseases in this regard. To improve outpatient care of these patients and reduce hospitalization rates, the telemedical disease management program HerzMobil was developed in the past.

Objective: This work aims to analyze the inter-annotator variability among two professional groups (healthcare and engineering) involved in this program's annotation process of free-text clinical notes using categories.

Telemedicine Research from Big Bang to 2022.

The Clinical Information Systems (CIS) section of the IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics systematically screens about 2,500 publications from more than 1,000 journals annually to find the best CIS publications. The editors of the CIS section have noticed a trend toward patient-centered care supported by AI and machine learning and increased research in cross-institutional data sharing, particularly in telemedicine. As a result, they adjusted their search query to include the MeSH term "telemedicine.

Making a Virtue of Necessity - A Highly Structured Clinical Data Warehouse as the Source of Assured Truth in a Hospital.

Data-driven decision-making in health care is becoming increasingly important in daily clinical use. A data warehouse, storing all the clinically relevant information in a highly structured way, is a primary basis for achieving this goal. We are developing a clinical data warehouse where more than 20 years of clinical data can be persisted, and newly generated data from different sources can be integrated.

The Surviral Epidemiological Early Warning System Tyrol Dashboard - System, Functionality and Findings.

Background: Dashboards provide a good retrospective view of the development of the disease. Yet, current COVID-related dashboards typically lack the capability to predict future trends. However, this is important for health policy makers and health care providers in order to adopt meaningful containment strategies.

Prevalence of VOYAGER PAD trial exclusion criteria in unselected patients undergoing lower limb revascularization.

Background: The VOYAGER PAD trial investigated data on dual pathway inhibition after lower limb revascularization for peripheral arterial disease (PAD). Multiple exclusion criteria were applied. However, neither data on the prevalence of exclusion criteria nor on the total number of patients screened for inclusion was discussed.

Perinatal and postpartum care during the COVID-19 pandemic: A nationwide cohort study.

Background: This study aimed to analyze perinatal outcomes and adverse events during the COVID-19 pandemic's first wave to help direct decision making in future waves.

Methods: This study was an epidemiological cohort study analyzing comprehensive birth registry data among all 80 obstetric departments in Austria. Out of 469 771 records, 468 348 were considered eligible, whereof those with preterm delivery, birthweight <500 g, multiple fetuses, fetal malformations and chromosomal anomalies, intrauterine fetal death, maternal cancer, HIV infection, and/or inter-hospital transfers were excluded.

Nutritional Status in Patients with Medication-Related Osteonecrosis of the Jaw (MRONJ).

Medication-related osteonecrosis of the jaw (MRONJ) is a potentially severe side effect of mostly antiresorptive drugs. The aim of this prospective clinical study was to evaluate the nutritional status in MRONJ patients scheduled for surgical treatment (intraoral soft tissue closure). The following parameters were evaluated: body weight, body height, BMI, nutritional risk index (NRI), bioelectric impedance analysis (BIA), vitamins A, B12, D3, E, K1, folic acid, iron, total protein, transferrin, ferritin, prealbumin, albumin, and zinc.

Choosing the Right Partner for Medication Related Osteonecrosis of the Jaw: What Central European Dentists Know.

Medication-related osteonecrosis of the jaw (MRONJ) is a side effect of antiresorptive drugs. In this online survey, the awareness and knowledge of dentists regarding MRONJ was evaluated, and potential implications for oncologists are discussed. Questionnaires were emailed to dentists from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and South Tyrol to evaluate disease-related knowledge and management.

Is it safe to drive after oral surgery?

Objectives: Driving ability largely depends on the total brake response time (TBRT) corresponding to the time a subject needs to react to a stimulus and apply a well-defined force on the brake pedal. As yet, the English literature completely lacks clinical studies evaluating the TBRT following oral surgery.

Materials And Methods: In this case-control study, a driving simulator was used to evaluate the TBRT in patients scheduled for oral surgery in local anesthesia.

Conception and Implementation of an Austrian Biobank Directory Integration Framework.

Introduction: Sample collections and data are hosted within different biobanks at diverse institutions across Europe. Our data integration framework aims at incorporating data about sample collections from different biobanks into a common research infrastructure, facilitating researchers' abilities to obtain high-quality samples to conduct their research. The resulting information must be locally gathered and distributed to searchable higher level information biobank directories to maximize the visibility on the national and European levels.

An IT-Supported Evaluation Tool for Biobanks Based on International Guidelines to Improve the Biosample Quality.

Background: The quality of samples stored within a biobank relies on the specimen collection, the transportation, the pre-analytical processing and the long-term storage. Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are essential tools to guarantee the quality of samples.

Objectives: The aim of this paper is to present an IT-supported tool (Pre-An Evaluation Tool) that allows assessing the compliance of current pre-analytical procedures (defined in SOPs) of a biobank with international guidelines.

Formalizing the Austrian Procedure Catalogue: A 4-step methodological analysis approach.

Objectives: Due to the lack of an internationally accepted and adopted standard for coding health interventions, Austria has established its own country-specific procedure classification system - the Austrian Procedure Catalogue (APC). Even though the APC is an elaborate coding standard for medical procedures, it has shortcomings that limit its usability. In order to enhance usability and usefulness, especially for research purposes and e-health applications, we developed an ontologized version of the APC.

Morphological changes in the human cervical intervertebral disc post trauma: response to fracture-type and degeneration grade over time.

Purpose: In the first 24 h post-intervertebral disc (IVD) trauma, up to 75 % cell death has been reported. In addition, burst fractures cause post-traumatic disc degeneration by elevated pro-apoptotic and pro-inflammatory gene transcription. Moreover, some patients have pre-trauma degenerative disc disease.

Morphological similarities after compression trauma of bovine and human intervertebral discs: Do disc cells have a chance of surviving?

To study the behavior of bovine disc cells and changes in disc matrix following in vitro compression tests; to compare the findings to investigations on human intervertebral discs (IVD) after burst fracture of the cervical spine. Healthy IVDs (n = 21) from three bovine tails were studied at 6 and 12 h post-mortem, with 16 IVDs subjected to impact loading and five as unloaded controls. IVDs (n = 8) from patients with burst fractures were compared to the bovine compression group.

Systemic upregulation of PDGF-B in patients with neovascular AMD.

Purpose: To determine the plasma levels of platelet-derived growth factor-B (PDGF-B), VEGF, and TNF-α in patients with neovascular AMD and in patients with diabetic macular edema (DME).

Methods: Thirty patients with neovascular AMD, 30 patients with DME, and 12 healthy controls were included in this prospective study. The concentrations of PDGF-B, VEGF, and TNF-α were measured by ELISA.

Proposal for a new content model for the Austrian Procedure Catalogue.

The Austrian Procedure Catalogue is used for procedure coding in Austria. Its architecture and content has some major weaknesses. The aim of this study is the presentation of a new potential content model for this classification system consisting of main characteristics of health interventions.

Characteristics of health interventions: a systematic analysis of the Austrian Procedure Catalogue.

The Austrian Procedure Catalogue contains 1,500 codes for health interventions used for performance-oriented hospital financing in Austria. It offers a multiaxial taxonomy. The aim of this study is to identify characteristics of medical procedures.