Internal medicine journal
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Internal medicine journal · Feb 2022
Proposed empiric antibiotic therapy for prosthetic joint infections: an analysis of the Prosthetic Joint Infection in Australia and New Zealand, Observational (PIANO) cohort.
Empiric antibiotic therapy in suspected prosthetic joint infection should cover likely pathogens while avoiding overly broad-spectrum antibiotics. We analysed individual patient data from a large prospective cohort study (Prosthetic Joint Infection in Australia and New Zealand, Observational (PIANO)) and found that causative organisms vary with the presentation type, with early post-operative infections more likely to be polymicrobial (41%) compared with late acute infections (10%). We thus propose empirical regimens tailored to the presentation type and presence or absence of sepsis.
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Internal medicine journal · Feb 2022
Automated information extraction from free-text medical documents for stroke key performance indicators: a pilot study.
Automated information extraction might be able to assist with the collection of stroke key performance indicators (KPI). The feasibility of using natural language processing for classification-based KPI and datetime field extraction was assessed. ⋯ The datetime field extraction method was successful in 29 of 43 (67.4%) cases. Further studies are indicated.