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Newest firstWe present a data-driven framework to predict 15-year all-cause mortality using outpatient administrative records for 2.3 million Veterans in the largest integrated U.S. healthcare system. Rather than relying on predefined clinical phenotypes, we used the 1,000 most common outpatient medical codes from each of three data types/modalities - ICD-9 (Dx), Current Procedural Terminology (CPT), and prescription drugs (R…
Open article record in new tab ↗BackgroundSome payors and clinicians require alcohol abstinence for direct-acting antiviral (DAA) therapy for chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. ObjectiveTo evaluate whether alcohol use at DAA treatment initiation was associated with decreased odds of sustained virologic response (SVR). DesignObservational cohort study using electronic health records. SettingUS Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the larg…
Open article record in new tab ↗BackgroundThe Veterans Health Administration COVID-19 (VACO) Index incorporates age, sex, and pre-existing comorbidity diagnoses readily available in the electronic health record (EHR) to predict 30-day all-cause mortality in both inpatients and outpatients infected with SARS-CoV-2. We examined the performance of the Index using data from Yale New Haven Hospital (YNHH) and national Medicare data overall, over time…
Open article record in new tab ↗BackgroundThere is growing concern that racial and ethnic minority communities around the world are experiencing a disproportionate burden of morbidity and mortality from symptomatic SARS-Cov-2 infection or coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). Most studies investigating racial and ethnic disparities to date have focused on hospitalized patients or have not characterized who received testing or those who tested pos…
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