Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "electronic health records"
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Essays on Health Care Quality and Access: Cancer Care Disparities, Composite Measure Development, and Geographic Variations in Electronic Health Record Adoption
(2014-06-06)Racial/ethnic disparities in cancer care are well documented in the research literature; however, less is known about the extent and potential source of cancer care disparities in the Veterans Health Administration (VA). ... -
Off Policy Reinforcement Learning for Real-World Settings
(2021-07-12)In this dissertation, we aim to adapt reinforcement learning (RL) to real-world, high-risk settings. We study how to optimize sequential decision-making in complex settings with large observational data repositories where ... -
Optimizing Methods for Suicide Prediction
(2022-05-23)Suicide is one of the leading causes of death worldwide, yet clinicians find it difficult to reliably identify individuals at high risk for suicide. Algorithmic approaches for suicide risk detection have been developed in ... -
Statistical Methods for Missing Data in Electronic Health Records-based Research
(2020-11-23)Because conducting large-scale, long-term randomized studies is prohibitively expensive and time-consuming, researchers have turned to observational studies using electronic health records (EHR) for answers. EHR include ... -
The Use of Oncology Electronic Health Record Databases to Assess the Effectiveness of Breast Cancer Treatment
(2022-01-14)Background: Non-experimental studies using large healthcare databases may be well-suited for addressing relevant questions in clinical oncology that pertain to the safety and effectiveness of medications. They complement ...