Vincent Thai

The impact of palliative care consults on deprescribing in palliative cancer patients

Helen Marin, Patrick Mayo, Vincent Thai, Deonne Dersch‐Mills et autres

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The effect of palliative care consults on deprescribing in palliative cancer patients.

Helen Marin, Patrick Mayo, Deonne Dersch‐Mills, Spencer Y. Ling et autres

92 Background: The transition from active cancer treatment to palliative care often results in a shift in drug risk-benefit assessment which requires the deprescribing of various medications. In addition, a change in patients’ goals of care (GOC) necessitates the alteration of drug …

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What is stable pain control? A prospective longitudinal study to assess the clinical value of a personalized pain goal

Robin L. Fainsinger, Cheryl Nekolaichuk, Lara Fainsinger, Viki Muller et autres

BACKGROUND: A universal consensus regarding standardized pain outcomes does not exist. The personalized pain goal has been suggested as a clinically relevant outcome measure. AIM: To assess the feasibility of obtaining a personalized pain goal and to compare a clinically based personalized …

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Impact of Adding a Pictorial Display to Enhance Recall of Cancer Patient Histories: A Randomized Trial

Gary Wolch, Sunita Ghosh, Curtiss Boyington, Sharon Watanabe et autres

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Clinical prediction survival of advanced cancer patients by palliative care: a multi-site study

Vincent Thai, Sunita Ghosh, Yoko Tarumi, Gary Wolch et autres

AIMS: This study examined (1) accuracy of clinician prediction of survival (CPS) by palliative practitioners on first assessment with the use of standardised palliative tools, (2) factors affecting accuracy, (3) potential impact on clinical care. METHODS: A multi-site prospective study (n=1530) was …

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A brief review of survival prediction of advanced cancer patients

Vincent Thai, Yoko Tarumi, Gary Wolch

Survival prediction of advanced cancer patients remains an important task for palliative clinicians. It has transformed from an art form into a more scientific branch of the discipline with the evolution of palliative medicine and use of statistical estimates of survival. Both …

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Conversion of Karnofsky Performance Status (Kps) and Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Performance Status (Ecog) to Palliative Performance Scale (Pps), and the interchangeability of Pps and Kps in Prognostic Tools

Ingrid de Kock, Mehrnoush Mirhosseini, FRANCIS Y. K. LAU, Vincent Thai et autres

AIM: The aim of our study was to assess whether the Karnofsky Performance Status (KPS), the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) Performance Status, and the Palliative Performance Scale (PPS) are interchangeable individually or within two prognostic tools: the Palliative Prognostic Score (PaP) …

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Engineering Natural Language Processing Solutions for Structured Information from Clinical Text: Extracting Sentinel Events from Palliative Care Consult Letters

Neil Edward Barrett, Jens H. Weber-Jahnke, Vincent Thai

Despite a trend to formalize and codify medical information, natural language communications still play a prominent role in health care workflows, in particular when it comes to hand-overs between providers. Natural language processing (NLP) attempts to bridge the gap between informal, natural …

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Automated clinical coding using semantic atoms and topology

Neil Edward Barrett, Jens H. Weber-Jahnke, Vincent Thai

Automated clinical coding (ACC) transforms narrative text in clinical records into a structured form. ACC may assign unique identifiers from standard terminologies. Previous ACC research focuses on mapping narrative phrases to terminological descriptions (e.g. concept descriptions). These methods make little or no …

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Impact of Infections on the Survival of Hospitalized Advanced Cancer Patients

Vincent Thai, FRANCIS Y. K. LAU, Gary Wolch, Ju Dong Yang et autres

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Evaluation of the Palliative Prognostic Score (PaP) and Routinely Collected Clinical Data in Prognostication of Survival for Patients Referred to a Palliative Care Consultation Service in an Acute Care Hospital

Yoko Tarumi, Sharon Watanabe, FRANCIS Y. K. LAU, Ju Dong Yang et autres

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The Correlation of Standard Heart Failure Assessment and Palliative Care Questionnaires in a Multidisciplinary Heart Failure Clinic

Justin Adrian Ezekowitz, Vincent Thai, Twylla S. Hodnefield, Lea Sanderson et autres

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