Healthcare analytics has attracted increasing research interests as electronic health records (EHR) and medical image data have skyrocketed over the past decade [1]. EHR and lab reports contain rich text, visual, and time series information such as a patient’s medical and diagno…
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Insomnia is a risk factor for suicidal behavior including attempts and suicide. We investigated whether insomnia symptom severity predicted suicidality and suicide in an at-risk sample. The sample included deceased psychiatric patients seen at Weber Human Services since 2008 (N=…
This thesis studies event history analysis in multivariate longitudinal observational databases (LODs) and its application in postmarketing surveillance to identify and measure the relationship between events of health outcomes and drug exposures. The LODs contain repeated measu…
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder with a prevalence of approximately 1% children worldwide. ASD is characterized by deficits in social communication and interaction and the presence of restricted interests and repetitive behaviours. Genetic alterati…
The purpose of this study is to investigate factors affecting diffusion of an Electronic Medical Record in the Kuwait Health Care Delivery System (HCDS) from the physicians' perspective. A mixed methodology design including quantitative and qualitative measures was used. The qua…
“If you build it they will come” is the general attitude of many medical and non-medical health administrators in regard to physicians' attitudes about the actual usage of medical information systems (MIS). But how can we achieve confidence that “they will come”, i.e., physician…
Objective: To review the trends in early mortality (death within 90-days of diagnosis) in patients with light-chain (AL) amyloidosis and identify independent predictors of early mortality.