Electronic health records

Maximizing the use of social and behavioural information from secondary care mental health electronic health records

The contribution of social and behavioural factors in the development of mental health conditions and treatment effectiveness is widely supported, yet there are weak population level data sources on social and behavioural determinants of mental …

Named entity recognition in electronic health records using transfer learning bootstrapped Neural Networks

Neural networks (NNs) have become the state of the art in many machine learning applications, such as image, sound (LeCun et al., 2015) and natural language processing (Young et al., 2017; Linggard et al., 2012). However, the success of NNs remains …

Natural language processing for structuring clinical text data on depression using UK-CRIS

Background: Utilisation of routinely collected electronic health records from secondary care offers unprecedented possibilities for medical science research but can also present difficulties. One key issue is that medical information is presented as …

Real-world effectiveness, its predictors and onset of action of cholinesterase inhibitors and memantine in dementia: retrospective health record study

Background: The efficacy of acetylcholinesterase inhibitors and memantine in the symptomatic treatment of Alzheimer's disease is well-established. Randomised trials have shown them to be associated with a reduction in the rate of cognitive decline. …