Trends in opioid use disorder in the Veterans Health Administration, 2005-2022

Abstract: Importance: Given the personal and social burdens of opioid use disorder (OUD), understanding time trends in OUD prevalence in large patient populations is key to …

Modernizing surgical quality: A novel approach to improving detection of surgical site infections in the Veteran population

Abstract: Introduction: Surgical site infections (SSIs) are an important quality measure. Identifying SSIs often relies upon a time-intensive manual review of a sample of common …

Using natural language processing to evaluate temporal patterns in suicide risk variation among high-risk Veterans

Abstract: Measuring suicide risk fluctuation remains difficult, especially for high-suicide risk patients. Our study addressed this issue by leveraging Dynamic Topic Modeling, a …

Parkinson disease genetics extended to African and Hispanic ancestries in the VA Million Veteran Program

Abstract: BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Nearly all genetic analyses of Parkinson disease (PD) have been in populations of European ancestry. We sought to test the ability of a machine …

High dimensional predictions of suicide risk in 4.2 million US Veterans using ensemble transfer learning

Abstract: We present an ensemble transfer learning method to predict suicide from Veterans Affairs (VA) electronic medical records (EMR). A diverse set of base models was trained …

Clinical outcomes of intravenous ketamine treatment for depression in the VA Health System

Abstract: Objective/Background: Intravenous (IV) ketamine is effective for reducing symptoms of major depressive disorder in short-term clinical trials; this study characterized …

Military veterans and civilians' mental health diagnoses: an analysis of secondary mental health services

Abstract: Healthcare provision in the United Kingdom (UK) falls primarily to the National Health Service (NHS) which is free at the point of access. In the UK, there is currently …