Diagnostic accuracy of physician review, expert algorithms and data- derived algorithms in adult verbal autopsies

Symptom recall and the diagnostic accuracy of verbal autopsies

Algorithms for verbal autopsies: a validation study in Kenyan children.

The verbal autopsy (VA) questionnaire is a widely used method for collecting information on cause-specific mortality where the medical certification of deaths in childhood is incomplete. This paper discusses review by physicians and expert algorithms as approaches to ascribing cause of deaths from the VA questionnaire and proposes an alternative, data-derived approach. In this validation study,...

Accuracy Improvement of Mood Disorders Prediction using a Combination of Data Mining and Meta-Heuristic Algorithms

Introduction: Since the delay or mistake in the diagnosis of mood disorders due to the similarity of their symptoms hinders effective treatment, this study aimed to accurately diagnose mood disorders including psychosis, autism, personality disorder, bipolar, depression, and schizophrenia, through modeling and analyzing patients' data. Method: Data collected in this applied developmental resear...

Accuracy Improvement of Mood Disorders Prediction using a Combination of Data Mining and Meta-Heuristic Algorithms

Introduction: Since the delay or mistake in the diagnosis of mood disorders due to the similarity of their symptoms hinders effective treatment, this study aimed to accurately diagnose mood disorders including psychosis, autism, personality disorder, bipolar, depression, and schizophrenia, through modeling and analyzing patients' data. Method: Data collected in this applied developmental resear...

Diagnostic accuracy of administrative data algorithms in the diagnosis of osteoarthritis: a systematic review

BACKGROUND Administrative health care data are frequently used to study disease burden and treatment outcomes in many conditions including osteoarthritis (OA). OA is a chronic condition with significant disease burden affecting over 27 million adults in the US. There are few studies examining the performance of administrative data algorithms to diagnose OA. The purpose of this study is to perfo...