Publications by authors named "Sam Labib"
Article Synopsis
- This study analyzed changes in the incidence and patient demographics of lateral ankle ligament repair (LALR) for chronic ankle instability from 2009 to 2019 using the IBM Watson Health MarketScan Database.
- The research found a significant 76.6% increase in annual incidence rates of LALR, going from 3.46 to 6.11 cases per 100,000 population, with a projected 61.5% increase in annual procedure volumes by 2032.
- Notably, the largest rise in incidence was among patients over 70 years old, suggesting that older individuals are becoming more active and may seek out elective surgeries to maintain their activity levels, highlighting a need for further research on surgical considerations
Objective: The aim of this study was to quantify the variability of language in free text reports of pulmonary embolus (PE) studies and to gauge the informativeness of free text to predict PE diagnosis using machine learning as proxy for human understanding.
Materials And Methods: All 1,133 consecutive chest CTs with contrast studies performed under a PE protocol and ordered in the emergency department in 2016 were selected from our departmental electronic workflow system. We used commercial text-mining and predictive analytics software to parse and describe all report text and to generate a suite of machine learning rules that sought to predict the "gold standard" radiological diagnosis of PE.