Search Results - "Thusitha Mabotuwana"

Framework for Extracting Critical Findings in Radiology Reports by Mabotuwana, Thusitha, Hall, Christopher S., Cross, Nathan

“…Critical results reporting guidelines demand that certain critical findings are communicated to the responsible provider within a specific period of time. In…”
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Determining Follow-Up Imaging Study Using Radiology Reports by Dalal, Sandeep, Hombal, Vadiraj, Weng, Wei-Hung, Mankovich, Gabe, Mabotuwana, Thusitha, Hall, Christopher S., Fuller, Joseph, Lehnert, Bruce E., Gunn, Martin L.

“…Radiology reports often contain follow-up imaging recommendations. Failure to comply with these recommendations in a timely manner can lead to delayed…”
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An ontology-based approach to enhance querying capabilities of general practice medicine for better management of hypertension by Mabotuwana, Thusitha, Warren, Jim

“…Summary Background Hypertension is one of the most prevalent chronic conditions and is directly correlated to deadly risks; yet, despite the availability of…”
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A model of blood flow in the mesenteric arterial system by Mabotuwana, Thusitha D S, Cheng, Leo K, Pullan, Andrew J

“…There are some early clinical indicators of cardiac ischemia, most notably a change in a person's electrocardiogram. Less well understood, but potentially just…”
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Mapping Institution-Specific Study Descriptions to RadLex Playbook Entries by Mabotuwana, Thusitha, Lee, Michael C., Cohen-Solal, Eric V., Chang, Paul

“…The naming of imaging procedures is currently not standardized across institutions. As a result, it is a challenge to establish national registries, for…”
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Using primary care prescribing data to improve GP awareness of antidepressant adherence issues by Mabotuwana, Thusitha, Warren, Jim, Orr, Martin, Kenealy, Timothy, Harrison, Jeff

“…Adherence to antidepressant therapy remains a major issue worldwide. Most people with depression are treated in a general practice setting, but many stop…”
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Quality indicators to measure blood pressure management over a time interval by Thusitha Mabotuwana, Jim Warren, Raina Elley, John Kennelly, Chris Paton, Kuinileti Wai, Stewart Wells

“…Background Quality indicators are an important part of the primary care landscape, but focus strongly on point-in-time measurements, such as a patient's last…”
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A Semantic Web Technology Based Approach to Identify Hypertensive Patients for Follow-Up/Recall by Mabotuwana, T.D.S., Warren, J.

“…We present an ontology based approach to identify hypertensive patients who show non-adherence to prescribed medication. Using the Web ontology language (OWL),…”
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Determining Adherence to Follow-up Imaging Recommendations by Mabotuwana, Thusitha, Hombal, Vadiraj, Dalal, Sandeep, Hall, Christopher S., Gunn, Martin

“…Radiology reports often contain follow-up imaging recommendations. However, these recommendations are not always followed up by referring physicians and…”
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Automated Tracking of Follow-Up Imaging Recommendations by Mabotuwana, Thusitha, Hall, Christopher S, Hombal, Vadiraj, Pai, Prashanth, Raghavan, Usha Nandini, Regis, Shawn, McKee, Brady, Dalal, Sandeep, Wald, Christoph, Gunn, Martin L

“…Radiology reports often contain follow-up imaging recommendations. Failure to comply with these recommendations in a timely manner can lead to poor patient…”
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ChronoMedIt – A computational quality audit framework for better management of patients with chronic conditions by Mabotuwana, Thusitha, Warren, Jim

“…Quality audit and feedback to general practice is an important aspect of successful chronic disease management. However, due to the complex temporal…”
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Determining scanned body part from DICOM study description for relevant prior study matching by Mabotuwana, Thusitha, Qian, Yuechen

“…The typical radiology reporting workflow involves the radiologist first looking at one or more relevant prior studies before interpreting the current study. To…”
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An ontology-based similarity measure for biomedical data – Application to radiology reports by Mabotuwana, Thusitha, Lee, Michael C., Cohen-Solal, Eric V.

“…[Display omitted] •We examine an ontology-enhanced vector cosine similarity measure using is-a relationships.•The similarity measure was tested on two…”
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What can primary care prescribing data tell us about individual adherence to long-term medication?-comparison to pharmacy dispensing data by Mabotuwana, Thusitha, Warren, Jim, Harrison, Jeff, Kenealy, Timothy

“…Purpose To assess the predictive value of general practice electronic prescribing records with respect to adherence to long‐term medications as compared to…”
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Inpatient Complexity in Radiology—a Practical Application of the Case Mix Index Metric by Mabotuwana, Thusitha, Hall, Christopher S., Flacke, Sebastian, Thomas, Shiby, Wald, Christoph

“…With ongoing healthcare payment reforms in the USA, radiology is moving from its current state of a revenue generating department to a new reality of a…”
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A model to determine payments associated with radiology procedures by Mabotuwana, Thusitha, Hall, Christopher S., Thomas, Shiby, Wald, Christoph

“…•Radiology departments currently receive operational reports only at an aggregate level, typically at a cost-center level.•There is little visibility into how…”
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Improving Quality of Follow-Up Imaging Recommendations in Radiology by Mabotuwana, Thusitha, Hall, Christopher S, Tieder, Joel, Gunn, Martin L

“…Failure of timely follow-up imaging recommendations can result in suboptimal patient care. Evidence suggests that the use of conditional language in follow-up…”
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Probabilistic Modeling of Exam Durations in Radiology Procedures by Raghavan, Usha Nandini, Hall, Christopher S., Tellis, Ranjith, Mabotuwana, Thusitha, Wald, Christoph

“…In this paper, we model the statistical properties of imaging exam durations using parametric probability distributions such as the Gaussian, Gamma, Weibull,…”
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A computational framework to identify patients with poor adherence to blood pressure lowering medication by Mabotuwana, Thusitha, Warren, Jim, Kennelly, John

“…Abstract Background Blood pressure (BP) lowering medications have impressive efficacy in reducing cardiovascular and renal events; but low adherence threatens…”
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A context-sensitive image annotation recommendation engine for radiology by Mabotuwana, Thusitha, Qian, Yuechen, Sevenster, Merlijn

“…In the typical radiology reading workflow, a radiologist would go through an imaging study and annotate specific regions of interest. The radiologist has the…”
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