Background Concept extraction, a subdomain of natural language processing (NLP) with a
focus on extracting concepts of interest, has been adopted to computationally extract clinical …

Importance Gout is associated with cardiovascular diseases. The temporal association
between gout flares and cardiovascular events has not been investigated. Objective To …

Problem: Clinical practice requires the production of a time-and resource-consuming great
amount of notes. They contain relevant information, but their secondary use is almost …

Background: Sodium–glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2is) decrease serum urate
levels, but whether this translates into prevention of recurrent flares among patients with …

Objective To investigate the temporal association between the first diagnosis of gout and
cardiovascular events in the short term. Methods We performed a self‐controlled case series …

Importance Approximately 12 million adults in the US have a history of gout, but whether
serum urate levels can help predict recurrence is unclear. Objective To assess associations …

Electronic Health Records (EHR) are a rich repository of valuable clinical information that
exist in primary and secondary care databases. In order to utilize EHRs for medical …

Objective Previous studies demonstrated that the risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE) is
increased in patients with gout, but not whether there was a temporal association between …

With advances in information technology, the demand for using data science to enhance
healthcare and disease management is rapidly increasing. Among these technologies …

Objective To emulate target trials comparing recurrence of nephrolithiasis among patients
with pre-existing nephrolithiasis (overall and stratified by concomitant gout) initiating sodium …