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Newest firstIntroduction People who inject drugs (PWID) face a high risk for serious infections, yet International Classification of Diseases (ICD) codes fail to identify this population. Large language models (LLM) offer a promising alternative by extracting information from unstructured clinical text. This study evaluated the diagnostic performance of off-the-shelf LLMs in identifying PWID and related attributes from hospit…
Open article record in new tab ↗Background Discharge against medical advice (DAMA) and inpatient admission (IA) among emergency department (ED) visits are two important outcomes in hospital utilization, while the first one has been mainly considered a negative outcome. Aims This study aimed to examine the association of socioeconomic factors with DAMA and IA among ED visits with substance use (age 12-64 years) before and after the COVID-19 pande…
Aim To determine the burden and nature of substance use presentations within a defined rural region and provide an estimate of the prevalence and subsequent local needs. Method Anonymised secondary data, based on hospital inpatient enquiry (HiPE) records dated 2010-2021 from three sites, were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Result Despite similar gender distributions across the three hospita…
Open article record in new tab ↗BackgroundMortality is a common clinical outcome indicator but fails to capture patient-important outcomes like functional independence, cognition, and quality of life. ObjectiveTo assess performance of three validated indices of comorbidity burden-Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI), AHRQ Elixhauser Index (AHRQ-EI), Van Walraven modification (VW-EI)- for predicting patient-important adverse outcomes and healthcare r…
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