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Introduction to machine learning: k-nearest neighbors by Zhang, Zhongheng

“…Machine learning techniques have been widely used in many scientific fields, but its use in medical literature is limited partly because of technical…”
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Survival analysis in the presence of competing risks by Zhang, Zhongheng

“…Survival analysis in the presence of competing risks imposes additional challenges for clinical investigators in that hazard function (the rate) has no…”
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Propensity score method: a non-parametric technique to reduce model dependence by Zhang, Zhongheng

“…Propensity score analysis (PSA) is a powerful technique that it balances pretreatment covariates, making the causal effect inference from observational data as…”
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Machine learning for the prediction of volume responsiveness in patients with oliguric acute kidney injury in critical care by Zhang, Zhongheng, Ho, Kwok M, Hong, Yucai

“…Excess fluid balance in acute kidney injury (AKI) may be harmful, and conversely, some patients may respond to fluid challenges. This study aimed to develop a…”
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Prediction model for patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome: use of a genetic algorithm to develop a neural network model by Zhang, Zhongheng

“…Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is associated with significantly increased risk of death, and early risk stratification may help to choose the…”
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Antipyretic therapy in critically ill patients with established sepsis: a trial sequential analysis by Zhang, Zhongheng

“…antipyretic therapy for patients with sepsis has long been debated. The present study aimed to explore the beneficial effect of antipyretic therapy for ICU…”
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Editorial: Postoperative care: from pain management to delirium by Zhang, Zhongheng

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Dexmedetomidine For The Treatment Of Acute Lung Injury: A Fact Or Fiction? by Zhang, Zhongheng

“…Dexmedetomidine has been widely used in the intensive care unit (ICU), with the primary aim to keep patients on an appropriate level of sedation. Both…”
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Machine learning method for the management of acute kidney injury: more than just treating biomarkers individually by Zhang, Zhongheng

“…[...]the increase in serum creatinine usually indicates that the renal function has been severely impaired, and interventions to protect renal functions are…”
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Prevalence and impact of acute renal impairment on COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Yang, Xianghong, Jin, Yiyang, Li, Ranran, Zhang, Zhongheng, Sun, Renhua, Chen, Dechang

“…The aim of this study is to assess the prevalence of abnormal urine analysis and kidney dysfunction in COVID-19 patients and to determine the association of…”
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Ultrasonographic Measurement of the Respiratory Variation in the Inferior Vena Cava Diameter Is Predictive of Fluid Responsiveness in Critically Ill Patients: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis by Zhang, Zhongheng, Xu, Xiao, Ye, Sheng, Xu, Lei

“…Abstract Respiratory variation in the inferior vena cava (ΔIVC) has been extensively studied with respect to its value in predicting fluid responsiveness, but…”
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Efficacy and safety of regional citrate anticoagulation in critically ill patients undergoing continuous renal replacement therapy by Zhang, Zhongheng, Hongying, Ni

“…Purpose Regional citrate anticoagulation (RCA) is an attractive anticoagulation mode in continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) because it restricts the…”
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Identification of subclasses of sepsis that showed different clinical outcomes and responses to amount of fluid resuscitation: a latent profile analysis by Zhang, Zhongheng, Zhang, Gensheng, Goyal, Hemant, Mo, Lei, Hong, Yucai

“…Sepsis is a heterogeneous disease and identification of its subclasses may facilitate and optimize clinical management. This study aimed to identify subclasses…”
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Identification of three classes of acute respiratory distress syndrome using latent class analysis by Zhang, Zhongheng

“…Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a highly heterogeneous syndrome that can exhibit significant differences in the underlying causes, leading to…”
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Individualized fluid administration for critically ill patients with sepsis with an interpretable dynamic treatment regimen model by Zhang, Zhongheng, Zheng, Bin, Liu, Nan

“…Fluid strategy is the key to the successful management of patients with sepsis. However, previous studies failed to consider individualized treatment strategy,…”
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Cystatin C in Prediction of Acute Kidney Injury: A Systemic Review and Meta-analysis by Zhang, Zhongheng, MD, Lu, Baolong, MD, Sheng, Xiaoyan, MD, Jin, Ni, MD

“…Background Cystatin C (CysC) has been proposed as a filtration marker for the early detection of acute kidney injury (AKI); however, a wide range of its…”
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Predictive analytics with ensemble modeling in laparoscopic surgery: A technical note by Zhang, Zhongheng, Chen, Lin, Xu, Ping, Hong, Yucai

“…Predictive analytics have been widely used in the literature with respect to laparoscopic surgery and risk stratification. However, most predictive analytics…”
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A bibliometric analysis using VOSviewer of publications on COVID-19 by Yu, Yuetian, Li, Yujie, Zhang, Zhongheng, Gu, Zhichun, Zhong, Han, Zha, Qiongfang, Yang, Luyu, Zhu, Cheng, Chen, Erzhen

“…As a global pandemic, COVID-19 has aroused great concern in the last few months and a growing number of related researches have been published. Therefore, a…”
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Time-varying covariates and coefficients in Cox regression models by Zhang, Zhongheng, Reinikainen, Jaakko, Adeleke, Kazeem Adedayo, Pieterse, Marcel E, Groothuis-Oudshoorn, Catharina G M

“…Time-varying covariance occurs when a covariate changes over time during the follow-up period. Such variable can be analyzed with the Cox regression model to…”
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Normalized lactate load is associated with development of acute kidney injury in patients who underwent cardiopulmonary bypass surgery by Zhang, Zhongheng, Ni, Hongying

“…Cardiac surgery associated acute kidney injury is a major postoperative complication and has long been associated with adverse outcomes. However, the…”
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