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    Financial Estimation of the Uncertainty in Medicine Using Present Value of Medical Fees and a Mortality Risk Prediction Model: a Retrospective Cohort Study

    This study aimed to develop a method to enable the financial estimation of each patient’s uncertainty without focusing on healthcare technology. We define financial uncertainty (FU) as the difference between a...

    Hiroki Furuhata, Kenji Araki, Taisuke Ogawa in Journal of Medical Systems (2021)

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    Event Surrogate from Clinical Pathway Completion to Daily Meal for Availability Extension Using Standard Electronic Medical Records: a Retrospective Cohort Study

    This study aimed to improve generalizability of our previous study that analyzed clinical pathway (CP) completion. Although our previous study demonstrated that CP completion can reduce the length of hospital ...

    Hiroki Furuhata, Kenji Araki, Taisuke Ogawa in Journal of Medical Systems (2021)

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    Causation between Pathway Completion and Reduced Hospital Stay in Patients with Lung Cancer: a Retrospective Cohort Study Using Propensity Score Matching

    We have previously demonstrated that clinical pathway completion helps reduce hospital stays. However, our previous results showed only a correlation, not causation. Therefore, the current study’s aim was to a...

    Hiroki Furuhata, Kenji Araki, Taisuke Ogawa in Journal of Medical Systems (2020)

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    Effect on Completion of Clinical Pathway for Improving Clinical Indicator: Cases of Hospital Stay, Mortality Rate, and Comprehensive-Volume Ratio

    Many studies have analyzed the effects of clinical pathways, but most have considered only single diseases. The purpose of the present study was to exploratively analyze electronic medical records related to t...

    Hiroki Furuhata, Kenji Araki, Taisuke Ogawa, Mitsuru Ikeda in Journal of Medical Systems (2017)