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Predicting nonsurgical treatment outcomes in lumbar disc herniation: leveraging sparse electronic health records for patient phenotyping.
International journal of medical informatics - 1 Dec 2025
Lee Ye-Seul, Lee Yoon Jae, Ha In-Hyuk
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Electronic health records (EHRs) offer a wealth of patient data but often fail to capture the dynamic progression of symptoms, particularly in non-continuously monitored conditions like lumbar disc herniation (LDH). This study aimed to enhance the prediction of nonsurgical treatment outcomes for LDH using latent class trajectory modeling (LCTM) combined with machine learning, leveraging sparse EHRs to...
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- Humans
- Electronic Health Records
- Intervertebral Disc Displacement
- Male
- Female
- Machine Learning
