Publications by authors named "Sevan M Dulgarian"

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  • The study aimed to update the types of health care harm measures by gathering expert opinions on contemporary adverse event indicators through a modified World Café method.
  • Experts rated a total of 525 triggers and measures, with a significant portion deemed to have high clinical importance and suitability for evaluation via chart review or electronic monitoring.
  • The findings highlight the effective use of the World Café method in prioritizing critical healthcare measures, with plans for further validation of these measures to reduce reliance on manual chart reviews.
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We defined tolerance range as the distance of observing similar disease conditions or functional status from the upper to the lower boundaries of a specified time interval. A tolerance range was identified for linear regression and support vector machines to optimize the improvement rate (defined as IR) on accuracy in predicting mortality risk in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease using clinical notes. The corpus includes pulmonary, cardiology, and radiology reports of 15,500 patients who died between 2011 and 2017.

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