News and Announcements Archive  

EMERSE was used in "Quantitative assessment of gastric ischemic preconditioning on conduit perfusion in esophagectomy: propensity score weighting study" https://link.springer.com/articl...

Participant recruitment was supported, in part, using EMERSE for the study, "The reliability and validity of the TBI-CareQOL system in four diverse caregiver groups". https://jpro.springeropen.com/articles/10.11...

A team at the University Michigan described plans to use EMERSE in a published study protocol "Implementing pharmacist-prescriber collaboration to improve evidence-based anticoagulant use: a randomized trial" https://implementationscience.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13012...

EMERSE was used to identify patients treated for a subarachnoid hemorrhage for the paper, "A comparison of ventricular volume and linear indices in predicting shunt dependence in..." https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wnsx.2023.100181

A research team at the U of Michigan used EMERSE to publish the "largest retrospective advanced BTC cohort in the literature with both OS [overall survival] and PFS [progression free survival] data reported." https://doi.org/10.1093/oncolo/oyad063

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University used EMERSE to "determine if (1) weight loss was intentional or unintentional and (2) if UWL [unintentional weight loss] was recognized." https://degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/dx-2023-0002/html

Researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill used EMERSE to create the largest case series to date of patients with a clinical or molecular diagnosis of STAC3 disorder." https://gimopen.org/article/S2949-7744(23)00250-9/fulltext

Research at the U of Michigan used EMERSE to identify patients with mitral valve prolapse combined with their congenital heart disease database. https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9969218/

EMERSE was used to screen for potential subjects for the paper "Degree of Tendon Retraction and Younger Age Are Associated With Functional Decline Following Nonoperative Management of Complete Proximal Hamstring Ruptures". https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asmr.2023.01.005

EMERSE Community Meeting Tue May 23, 12-1 PM ET (1) Software updates; (2) Work in progress; (3) Kai Zheng (UC Irvine) presenting EMERSE implementation/usability study (4) Administration, Architecture and Technology Discussion; (5) Open forum Register here: https://docs.google.com/form...

UNC researchers used EMERSE to identify patients with Livedoid Vasculopathy for a paper published in the Journal of Clinical Neuromuscular Disease. https://journals.lww.com/jcnmd/Abstra...

"Since the ISTH are strictly clinical criteria...bleeding events were adjudicated and classified by trained clinicians who reviewed all participants’ medical notes using EMERSE" emerse https://frontiersin.org/articles/10.338...

EMERSE was used to search computed tomography angiography (CTA) and magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) reports for terms suggestive of an aortic focal intimal flap (FIF). https://frontiersin.org/articles/10...l

EMERSE was used to identify patients for the paper, "Timing of Balloon Atrial Septostomy in Patients with d‐TGA and Association with Birth Location and Patient Outcomes". https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00246-022-03079-5

Colleagues at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands made a great 2 minute video introducing EMERSE to their researchers. (Video is in Dutch) https://youtube.com/watch?v=MLeZ31C46Ns

Patients with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) were identified with EMERSE in the abstract, "Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) Impacts Weight Loss after Bariatric Surgery". https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9625030/

Upcoming EMERSE Community Meeting Series May 23, 12-1 PM ET Open to everyone, virtual on Zoom Register at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1eL...

Patients receiving ICIs w/ adrenal insufficiency & concern for hypophysitis were identified by EMERSE in the abstract "Checkpoint Inhibitor Induced Hypophysitis with Growth Hormone Deficiency and Implications for the Treatment of ACTH Deficiency" emerse https://academic.oup.com/jes/article/6/Suppl...

Clinical data were extracted using EMERSE for the publication, "Predictive Capacity of Population Pharmacokinetic Models for the Tacrolimus Dose Requirements of Pediatric Solid Organ Transplant Recipients" https://journals.lww.com/drug-monitori...

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University used EMERSE to support the paper "Transmission risk of COVID-19 infection with office-based flexible laryngoscopy" in "American Journal of Otolaryngology" emerse https://sciencedirect.com/science/articl...

Study participants were identified with EMERSE for the paper, "A retrospective cohort study of genetic referral and diagnosis of lynch syndrome in patients with cutaneous sebaceous lesions". https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10689-022-00322-z

EMERSE helped "obtain...accurate and complete information...avoiding high missingness" for paper "Racial disparities in breast cancer treatment patterns..." emerse https://nature.com/articles/s4159

EMERSE supported data collection for the study, "An App-Based Just-in-Time-Adaptive Self-Management Intervention for Care Partners: The CareQOL Feasibility Pilot Study". https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2023-17154-003

EMERSE was used to identify all patients with Extraskeletal Myxoid Chondrosarcoma seen at the U of Michigan from 1998-2021 in article in "American Journal of Clinical Oncology". https://journals.lww.com/amjclinicaloncology/Abstra...

A team at CWRU published a paper on "Sex differences in adults with acute myeloid leukemia..." EMERSE was used to "obtain the most accurate and complete information per patient". https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1002/cam4.5461

Upcoming talk: "Creating Clinically-Curated Real-World Data through the Marriage of OHDSI/OMOP and the Electronic Medical Record Search Engine (EMERSE)", by Mark Beno (Case Western Reserve), at AMIA 2023 Informatics Summit--Seattle, Washington, March 15, 2023.

U of Cincinnati team noted "EMERSE was able to obtain accurate pack-year history in 557 patients that were previously documented as unknown pack-year in the electronic health record social history" in study about lung cancer screening utilization rates https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtcvs.2023.01.032

UCSF team published in Breast Cancer Research and Treatment:"Nearly all patients had HR+ MBC and extensive liver metastases. Survival was short after pseudocirrhosis and prognosis worse with radiographic ascites." https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10549-022-06771-5

EMERSE was used in paper "Allostatic load and cardiovascular outcomes in males with prostate cancer" https://doi.org/10.1093/jncics/pkad005

EMERSE helped "ensure that even rarely mentioned events are detected" for the study "Pneumocystis jirovecii Infection in autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients", published in Bone Marrow Transplantation. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41409-022-01906-0

Clinical information was abstracted using EMERSE in the paper "Predictors and Interrelationship of Patient-Reported Outcomes in Antiphospholipid Syndrome: A Cross-Sectional Study". https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/acr2.11512

NCI Emerging Technologies Seminar Series "EMERSE: an easy-to-use, self-service search engine & chart review tool for EHR notes" Presenter: @informaticsGeek (U Michigan) Moderator: @dana_rollison (Moffitt Cancer Ctr) https://cssi.cancer.gov/news-and-events

Researchers used EMERSE to identify patients for a study with 83 suicide-related search terms in the paper, "Depression, suicide intent, and plan among adults presenting in an emergency department after making a suicide attempt..." NCI Cancer Data Science https://sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Looking for a fast, easy-to-use tool to help you access and understand medical record notes? Don’t miss the upcoming @NCI_CSSI Emerging Technologies Seminar Series, where Dr. Hanauer will describe @projectEMERSE, and how it can help #CancerResearchers https://datascience.cancer.gov/news-events/events/nci-emer...

UNC-Chapel Hill researchers used EMERSE to find patients with rheumatological diseases who received immune checkpoint inhibitors: "anti-rheumatic therapy did not prevent disease flares or new onset irAEs, but did not negatively impact malignancy outcomes." https://bmcrheumatol.biomedcentral.com/artic...

EMERSE Community Meeting Series, Feb 7, 2023, 12-1 PM Topics: (1) Updates; (2) Work in progress; (3) Site Spotlight; (4) Admin, Architecture & Tech Discussion; (5) Open Forum Guest Speaker: Mark Snackey, Univ Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands Register: https://medicine.umich.edu/dept/learning-healt...

NCI Emerging Technologies Seminar Series "EMERSE: an easy-to-use, self-service search engine & chart review tool for EHR notes" Presenter: @informaticsGeek (U Michigan) Moderator: @dana_rollison (Moffitt Cancer Ctr), Feb 21, 2023: 2:00-3:00 PM ET, Register: https://cssi.cancer.gov/news-and-events

Patients were identified with the help of EMERSE for the study "Left ventricular remodeling following aortic root and ascending aneurysm repair" emerse https://doi.org/10.3389/fcvm.2022.944786

EMERSE Community Meeting Series, Feb 7, 2013, 12-1 PM Topics: (1) Updates; (2) Work in progress; (3) Site Spotlight; (4) Admin, Architecture & Tech Discussion; (5) Open Forum Guest Speaker: Mark Snackey, Univ Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands Register: https://medicine.umich.edu/dept/learning-health-sci...

EMERSE was used in multiple contexts for the paper, "In critically ill patients, anti-anaerobic antibiotics increase risk of adverse clinical outcomes" https://erj.ersjournals.com/content/early/2022/09/22/13993003.00910-2022

EMERSE Community Meeting Series, Feb 7, 2023, 12-1 PM Topics: (1) Updates; (2) Work in progress; (3) Site Spotlight; (4) Admin, Architecture & Tech Discussion; (5) Open Forum Guest Speaker: Mark Snackey, Univ Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands Register: https://medicine.umich.edu/dept/learning-health-scie...

NCI Emerging Technologies Seminar Series "EMERSE: an easy-to-use, self-service search engine and chart review tool for EHR notes" Presenter: David Hanauer (U Michigan) Moderator: Dana Rollison (Moffitt Cancer Ctr), Feb 21, 2023: 2:00-3:00 PM ET Register: https://cssi.cancer.gov/news-and-events

A team at UCSF used EMERSE for chart reviews in a study that resulted in the "largest reported case series of patients with MBC [metastatic breast cancer] and pseudocirrhosis." Abstract presented at the 2022 ASCO Annual Meeting. https://ascopubs.org/doi/abs/10.1200/JCO.2022.40.16_suppl.1101

EMERSE was used to confirm patient details for the abstract "Screening for co-incident TANGO2 related metabolic encephalopathy and arrhythmia syndrome in 22q11 deletion syndrome" presented at the 2022 ACMG Annual Clinical Genetics Meeting. https://gimjournal.org/article/S1098-36...

EMERSE aided chart reviews for 118 patients in the paper "Kommerell Diverticulum: Distinctions Between Arch Side and Evaluation of Morphology, Size, And Risk" in the journal Annals of Thoracic Surgery. https://annalsthoracicsurgery.org/arti...

EMERSE assisted patient recruitment in the paper, "Initial evidence for reliable and valid use of scores on the 8-item Econ-QOL short form to measure economic quality of life in caregivers of persons with traumatic brain injury" https://archives-pmr.org/article/S000...

EMERSE was used by @VEllingrod and colleagues to identify notes with phrase "pharmacogenetics pharmacist interpretation of results" since it was "unique to [the] note template containing pharmacist recommendations..." in paper published in @FrontPharmacol. https://frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphar.2022.939313/full

EMERSE was used to "identify 3 patient groups" for the study "MRI Diagnosis of Clival Cancer and Sixth Nerve Palsy". Conclusion: "Current MRI pulse sequences allow accurate differentiation of a normal from a cancerous clivus". https://journals.lww.com/jneuro-ophthalmology/Abstr...

Researchers used EMERSE "to facilitate thorough chart review" in the paper "Receipt of Recovery-Oriented Care Practices During Hospitalization for Sepsis". https://journals.lww.com/ccejournal/Fullte...

EMERSE was used to support the work of Malvika Pillai's PhD thesis "Computational Phenotyping And Drug Repurposing From Electronic Medical Records" in the Carolina Health Informatics Program at UNC-Chapel Hill. https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/concern/dissertations/m900p434b

Researchers used EMERSE to conduct "detailed medical chart review" for the paper, "Contemporary Non-surgical Management of Acute Type A Aortic Dissection: Better Outcomes?" https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtcvs.2022.09.025

Charts were reviewed for inclusion by the study team using EMERSE for the paper, "Do Preoperative Factors Predict Success of Antegrade Continence Enemas in Children?" https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2022.09.029

A psychiatry paper recently noted that using EMERSE "avoids the pitfalls of diagnostic inaccuracy seen with tools querying on ICD and billing codes, which are particularly limited in the case of catatonia." https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2022.09.001

EMERSE was used for "natural language searches to validate a set of ICD-9 codes for identifying COPCs" in the paper "Validation of ICD-9 Codes for Identification of Chronic Overlapping Pain Conditions". https://tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.10...

Slides and recording of our latest EMERSE Community Series presentation by Mark Beno from Case Western Reserve University are now available online at https://project-emerse.org/presentations.html

TODAY: "Unlocking Real World Data Buried in the EHR: The EMERSE Experience at Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals of Cleveland", by Mark Beno at CWRU. Tues, Oct 11, 1-2 PM ET. For more details and to register, visit: https://medicine.umich.edu/dept/learnin...

Tomorrow: "Unlocking Real World Data Buried in the EHR: The EMERSE Experience at Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals of Cleveland", by Mark Beno at CWRU. Tues, Oct 11, 1-2 PM ET. For more details and to register, visit: https://medicine.umich.edu/dept/learnin...

In one week: "Unlocking Real World Data Buried in the EHR: The EMERSE Experience at Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals of Cleveland", by Mark Beno at CWRU. Tues, Oct 11, 1-2 PM ET. For more details and to register, visit: https://medicine.umich.edu/dept/learnin...

Upcoming talk: "Unlocking Real World Data Buried in the EHR: The EMERSE Experience at Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals of Cleveland", by Mark Beno at CWRU. Tues, Oct 11, 1-2 PM ET. For more details and to register, visit: https://medicine.umich.edu/dept/learnin...

Clinical notes about scalp cooling therapy were identified using EMERSE in the paper "Factors influencing scalp cooling discussions and use at a large academic institution: a single‐center retrospective review". LearningHealthSci-UM https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00520-022-07285-y

Join @projectEMERSE Community Meeting Series talk with Mark Beno "Unlocking Real World Data Buried in the #EHR : The EMERSE Experience @cwru and University Hospitals of Cleveland" Oct 11, 2022, 1PM ET https://bit.ly/EmerseCMBeno

EMERSE was used to support work in the Honors Thesis "Use of Machine-Learning Software to Categorize Oncotype DX Data" by Keven Gomez at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/concern/honors_theses/ws859r03x

EMERSE version 6.4 is now released! Main change for users is that Saved Terms (aka "Term Bundles") can now be shared with other users across the network. https://github.com/project-emerse/

EMERSE poster presented at the #ITCR2022 annual meeting, in St Louis. #NCIITCR

Patients with an enlarged vestibular aqueduct (EVA) were identified with EMERSE for a study done at UNC, "Enlarged Vestibular Aqueduct: Hearing Progression and Cochlear Implant Candidacy in Pediatric Patients". https://journals.lww.com/otology-neurotology/Abstract/202...

Register for EMERSE Community Meeting Series talk by Mark Beno from Case Western Reserve U: "Unlocking Real World Data Buried in the EHR: The EMERSE Experience at Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals of Cleveland", Oct 11, 2022, 1PM ET. https://medicine.umich.edu/dept/learnin...

The EMERSE "Synonyms" dataset, containing terms aiding query expansion, has now surpassed 1.5 million unique rows of data. https://project-emerse.org/synonyms.html

EMERSE supported cohort identification for the paper "Accuracy of Visual Fields in Localizing MRI Lesions in Posterior Cerebral Artery Infarction". https://journals.lww.com/jneuro-ophthalmology/Abstr...

EMERSE was used to search for terms including "homonymous hemianopia", "visual fields", and "MRI" in paper "Correlation of Macular Sparing and Homonymous Paracentral Scotomas With MRI Lesions in Posterior Cerebral Artery Infarction". https://journals.lww.com/jneuro-ophthalmology/Abstract/99...

Use of EMERSE to identify patients with traumatic stress is described in the PLOS ONE protocol paper "Morning light treatment for traumatic stress: The role of amygdala reactivity study protocol". https://journals.plos.org/ploson...

EMERSE was used to help abstract data for a study of "The Utility of Noninvasive PET/CT Myocardial Perfusion Imaging in Adult Liver Transplant Candidates". https://journals.lww.com/transplantationdirect/Fulltext/20...

EMERSE used in study, "Comparative study of radiologists vs machine learning in differentiating biopsy-proven pseudoprogression and true progression in diffuse gliomas". https://sciencedirect.com/scienc...

The study "Poor Long-term Outcomes of Intravenous Drug Users with Infectious Endocarditis" utilized EMERSE for data abstraction. https://jtcvsopen.org/article...

EMERSE supported study of giant cell tumors of bone (GCTB). Main finding: "Increasing the interval of denosumab dosing for GCTB provided similar tumor control compared to standard dosing and lower absolute number of bone toxicity events." https://academic.oup.com/onc...

EMERSE was used to create a "rigorously curated sample" of patients with visual field defects in the paper, "Visual Field Defect Patterns Associated With Lesions of the Retrochiasmal Visual Pathway". MICHR https://journals.lww.com/jneuro-ophthalmology/Abstract/990...

Over the past quarter (April-June 2022), the powerful EMERSE medical record search engine @umich has supported 122 studies from 101 different research investigators. @projectEMERSE https://project-emerse.org #healthresearch https://project-emerse.org

EMERSE was used to identify cases of gastric neuroendocrine neoplasms for a recent review in the journal . https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00261-022-03509-1

EMERSE was used to identify 100 patients meeting study criteria for the paper, "Evaluation of Diplopia by Emergency Medicine Physicians and Consulting Neurologists." https://journals.lww.com/jneuro-ophthalmology/Abstract/202...

Various data points were collected using EMERSE to support the publication, "Healthy US population reference values for CT visceral fat measurements and the impact of IV contrast, HU range, and spinal levels". https://nature.com/articles/s41598-022-06232-5

"Elevated OSA risk was common after HNSCC treatment" according to the study "Risk of obstructive sleep apnea after treatment of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: a cross-sectional study" which used EMERSE. https://jcsm.aasm.org/doi/pdf/10.5664/jcsm.9954

Notes from 2.6 million patients were queried with EMERSE for "benign external hydrocephalus" or "benign expansion of the subarachnoid spaces" (BESS) for "one of the largest cohorts of patients with BESS at a single institution." https://doi.org/10.3171/2021.12.PEDS21436

EMERSE supported research about management of peripheral bronchial atresia. Conclusions: "Peripheral bronchial atresia can be safely managed expectantly." https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00383-022-05089-z

EMERSE was used to identify patients with peripartum cardiomyopathy in study that concluded "tachycardia in the peripartum period should raise concern for cardiomyopathy..." https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/clc.23782

EMERSE was used to recruit patients for a study described in the PhD thesis, "Sedentary Behavior and Physical Activity of Older Adults" by Katelyn Webster https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/171333

EMERSE used in "largest cohort of patients studied to date with syrinx and evaluation for superficial abdominal reflex". Abnl SAR common in Chiari-associated syrinx, compared w idiopathic syrinx. https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096758682100638X

AMIA 2022 Informatics Summit presentation about EMERSE by Mark Beno and colleagues from Case Western Reserve University now online at https://vimeo.com/691995173

Today at 10:30 AM CDT Mark Beno and colleagues from Case Western Reserve will be talking about EMERSE at the 2022 AMIA Annual Summit in Chicago, Session S36: "Improving Workflow: Informatics Tools No Researcher Should Be Without".

The EMERSE team is excited to report that in collaboration with our colleagues at the U of Kentucky, the EMERSE research network is now live! Users can now get secure, obfuscated counts based on free text searches across the network. Hoping others will be able to join soon.

Great talk yesterday by UCSF colleagues Lakshmi Radhakrishnan and Eric Meeks on Machine-Redacted Notes & EMERSE. Recording available here: https://vimeo.com/684464139

It's not too late to register for the talk, "Machine-Redacted Clinical Text, EMERSE, and Solr API: a data scientist-friendly environment for utilizing clinical notes for research", by UCSF colleagues. TOMORROW (Thurs) March 3, 2 PM ET. https://bit.ly/emerse-talk-march-2022

EMERSE Meeting Series "Machine-Redacted Clinical Text, EMERSE, and Solr API:a data scientist-friendly environment for utilizing clinical notes for research" March 3, 2 PM ET. For more information or to register, visit: https://bit.ly/emerse-talk-march-2022

"EMERSE served as an innovative digital tool and essential component of this research study", in the paper "What Do EHRs Tell Us about How We Deploy Health Professionals to Address the Social Determinants of Health" https://tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/193...

Talk on "Machine-Redacted Clinical Text, EMERSE, and Solr API: a data scientist-friendly environment for utilizing clinical notes for research" by Eric Meeks (CTO, UCSF CTSI) & Lakshmi Radhakrishnan (Data Scientist). Thu Mar 3, 2 PM ET. Register: https://umich.us11.list-manage.com/track/click...

EMERSE was used in the paper "Dosimetric and Clinical Factors Associated with Breast Reconstruction Complications in Patients Receiving Post-Mastectomy Radiation". https://www.practicalradonc.org/article/S187...

EMERSE used for pts with "'Serratia' and either 'bacteremia' or 'endocarditis'. This helped identify patients with microbiology obtained at outside hospitals" for a study of bacteremia and endovascular Infections due to S marcescens. https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofab466.398

EMERSE was used to abstract data from aplastic anemia patients in: "Real-World Outcomes with Immunosuppressive Therapy for Aplastic Anemia in Patients Treated at the University of Michigan" https://doi.org/10.1182/blood-2021-146454

EMERSE was cited in the protocol paper, "An App-Based Just-in-Time Adaptive Self-management Intervention for Care Partners (CareQOL): Protocol for a Pilot Trial" https://researchprotocols.org/2021/12/e32842/

EMERSE was used for "Treatment and Prognosis of Inflammatory Pseudotumor of the Skull Base", "among the largest sample of cases describing the presentation, treatment, and prognosis of IPT of the skull base." https://thieme-connect.com/products...

Patient were identified with EMERSE for the paper, "Interrater Agreement of Bosniak Classification Version 2019 and Version 2005 for Cystic Renal Masses at CT and MRI" https://doi.org/10.1148/radiol.2021210853

EMERSE was used to identify patients "undergoing imaging surveillance of TAA in the pre- or postoperative setting with...CT angiograms ..." in the paper "Vascular Deformation Mapping for CT Surveillance of Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm Growth" https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/radiol.2021210658

EMERSE was used in the paper, "Surgical Management of Rhabdomyosarcoma of the Nasal Cavity and Paranasal Sinuses: Analysis of Operative Indications, Settings, and Outcomes" https://thieme-connect.com/products/ejour...

For EMERSE v6.3+, two new datasets are available for query expansion: (1) Spanish-English Dictionary & (2) Spanish-English Dictionary of Health Related Terms, that contains "popular expressions used...to describe names, signs and symptoms of illness." https://project-emerse.org/synonyms.html

EMERSE was used by researchers at UNC Chapel Hill in the study of Alpha-Gal Meat Allergies: "This in-depth analysis of clinical notes of AGS can serve as a basis for future automation of rare disease analysis..." https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/pra2.455

EMERSE supported "Meaning and purpose in Huntington's disease: a longitudinal study of its impact on quality of life" https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/acn3.51424

EMERSE was used to identify 7 cases of the very rare Bainbridge-Ropers Syndrome (BRPS): "These data highlight the need for awareness of the psychiatric comorbidity of BRPS" in paper, "Comorbid Psychiatric Aspects of Bainbridge-Ropers Syndrome" https://psychiatrist.com/pcc/assessment/comorbi...

EMERSE supported this paper published in Transfusion Medicine. Main finding: "...intraoperative hypocalcaemia occurs with relatively high frequency following large volume intraoperative transfusion." https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/tme.12798

EMERSE was used to search through patient records for the paper "Kommerell diverticulum: distinctions between arch side, and evaluation of morphology, size, and risk" https://www.annalsthoracicsurgery.org/arti...

EMERSE was used to abstract clinical information such as the timing of perianal fistula or stricture development among 198 patients with Crohn's disease and granulomas. https://academic.oup.com/ibdjournal/adva...

"Type of heart failure was determined based on echocardiogram results during hospitalization using the Electronic Medical Record Search Engine." in paper, "Trends in Calcium Channel Blocker Use in Patients with HF with..." https://amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(21)00416-2/fulltext

EMERSE was used in support of the paper, "Ventricular Volume Change as a Predictor of Shunt-Dependent Hydrocephalus in Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage" https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/a...

EMERSE was used in the paper, "Fracture characteristics by age, sex, and ambulatory status among individuals with cerebral palsy: a descriptive study" https://tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108...

Join us tomorrow, October 19, for the next #LHSCollaboratory with speakers: and Register today at https://medicine.umich.edu/dept/lhs/service-outreach/learnin...

EMERSE "was used to aid data collection" in paper on "end of life for children with malignancy at a large academic center with a well-established palliative care program." https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pbc.29391

Data elements, including the type of bariatric surgery, were abstracted using EMERSE in the paper, "Adverse events in patients taking apixaban or rivaroxaban who have undergone bariatric surgery: a retrospective case series" https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11239-021-02573-6

"NSAID use data were abstracted from the...EMR using EMERSE..which permitted the text of clinical notes and other documentation to be queried within 30 days of C. difficile testing." https://sciencedirect.com/scienc...

Learning Health System Collaboratory, "Making Sense of Unstructured Data", Tues October 19, 2021, 12:00 - 1:30 PM ET. 5 speakers/discussants. Open to all. Registration link: https://medicine.umich.edu/dept/lhs/service-outreach/learn...

Study "18F-FDG-PET/CT Evaluation of Indeterminate Adrenal Masses in Noncancer Patients" used EMERSE to identify patients. https://academic.oup.com/jcem/arti...

Learning Health System Collaboratory (online, free, open to all): "Making Sense of Unstructured Data", Tue October 19, 2021, 12:00-1:30 PM ET. Discussions to include EMERSE, natural language processing (NLP), & more. Info & registration link here: https://medicine.umich.edu/dept/lhs/servi...

EMERSE supported paper, "Impact of CYP3A5 phenotype on tacrolimus time in therapeutic range and clinical outcomes in pediatric renal and heart transplant recipients" https://accpjournals.onlinelibr...

Children with special needs were identified with provider-specific keywords using EMERSE in the paper "Preparing for puberty in girls with special needs: a cohort study of caregiver concerns and patient outcomes" https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpag.2021.03.008

EMERSE version 6.3 is now released. New capabilities include Network searches and more powerful query expansion with a new "Synonyms" feature that supports multiple datasets. https://project-emerse.org/documentation/user_guide.html#truesynonyms-2 https://project-emerse.org/documentation/networking_guide.html

EMERSE identified patients with rare phosphaturic mesenchymal tumors of the sinonasal area and skull base in paper: "Phosphaturic Mesenchymal Tumors of the Sinonasal Area and Skull Base" https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10...

Study of quadriceps femoris tendon tears used EMERSE to identify cases containing terms such as "quadriceps tendon rupture," "quadriceps tendon tear," "knee MRI,", etc. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00330-021-07912-y

The video recording and slides from our discussion on "EMERSE Networking: Connecting for Prep to Research" are now available online at https://project-emerse.org/presentations.html

EMERSE was used to identify patients with symptoms of psychosis and either suicide ideation or a recent suicide attempt. https://tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17522439.2021.1912815

The paper "Predictive value of incidental right ventricular abnormalities identified on SPECT for mortality and pulmonary hypertension" used EMERSE for procedure reports. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12350-021-02612-y

EMERSE meeting series: "EMERSE Networking: Connecting for Prep to Research" where we'll discuss an upcoming feature to enable secure searches across EMERSE sites. Anyone can join, give feedback, etc. TOMORROW, Tues Sept 21, 11 AM - 12 PM ET. Register here: https://umich.zoom.us/meetin...

EMERSE was used to identify patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) with ultrasounds. "...one in five US-3 observations represents probable or definite HCC at multiphase MRI or CT or HCC..." https://ajronline.org/doi/10.2214/AJR.20.23447

Patient with endometrial cancer were identified using EMERSE for the abstract "Differences in tumor sequencing across ethnic groups in the treatment of endometrial cancer" https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0090825821008891

EMERSE was used in: "Head and Neck Paragangliomas: Patterns of Otolaryngology Referrals for Genetic Testing Over 2 Decades" https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2473974X21995453

EMERSE used in "The incidence and outcome of postoperative hepatic encephalopathy in patients with cirrhosis" Conclusion: "hepatic encephalopathy is an uncommon but not rare postoperative complication" https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ueg2.12104

EMERSE was used to identify "all transplant patients at a tertiary academic medical center, including solid organ and bone marrow transplants" for the paper "De Novo Inflammatory Bowel Disease Rarely Occurs During Posttransplant Immunosuppression" https://academic.oup.com/ajcp/advanc...

Please join us for our EMERSE Monthly Meeting Series. This month: "EMERSE Networking: Connecting for Prep to Research" where we'll discuss an upcoming feature to enable secure searches across EMERSE sites. Tue Sept 21, 11 AM - 12 PM ET. Register here: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/regist...

EMERSE was used in the paper "Multi-Institutional Analysis of Outcomes in Supraglottic Jet Ventilation with a Team-Based Approach". https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/lary.29431

EMERSE supported the study "Management of Calcified Cephalohematoma of Infancy: The University of Michigan 25-Year Experience" https://journals.lww.com/plasreconsurg/Abstrac...

EMERSE supported the research presented in "Comparative assessment of ActiGraph data processing techniques for measuring sedentary behavior in adults with COPD" https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6579/ac18fe

EMERSE was used for the paper: "Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor-Related Pneumonitis in Lung Cancer: Real-World Incidence, Risk Factors, and Management Practices Across Six Health-Care Centers in North Carolina." https://journal.chestnet.org/artic...

EMERSE supported the paper, "Complications of Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt for Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension: A Single-Institution Study of 32 Patients" which was the "the largest retrospective study of VP shunts for IIH" to date. https://journals.lww.com/jneuro-ophthalmology/fulltext/2021/0600...

EMERSE verified "that the IV antibiotic treatment was given to treat...PEx, rather than for another indication" in "Outcomes of cystic fibrosis pulmonary exacerbations treated with antibiotics with activity against anaerobic bacteria" https://cysticfibrosisjournal.com/article/S1569-1993(21)00036-9/fulltext

EMERSE was used to identify cases for the study, "Should Imaging Surveillance be Used in Cutaneous Leiomyosarcoma?", presented at 2021 Society of Surgical Oncology – International Conference on Surgical Cancer Care https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1245/s10434-021-09682-9.pdf

Slides and recording from today's EMERSE 101 webinar are now available online at https://project-emerse.org/presentations.html

Online "EMERSE 101" webinar, open to all. Wednesday August 18, 2021, 2-3 PM Eastern. Register here for Zoom link: https://research.medicine.umich.edu/workshops/emerse-101

Paper: The Clinical and Imaging Profile of Skew Deviation: A Study of 157 Cases. EMERSE was used to identify cases that mentioned "skew" or "skew deviation". https://journals.lww.com/jneuro-ophthalmology/Abstract/2021...

Patients were identified using EMERSE for the study "Recurrence of Cutaneous Leiomyosarcoma–Resection Margin or Biology?" presented at Society of Surgical Oncology SSO 2021, Intl Conference on Surgical Cancer Care. https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1245/s10434-021-09682-9.pdf

Patients in the study "Satisfaction With Hormonal Treatment for Menstrual Suppression in Adolescents and Young Women With Disabilities" were identified using EMERSE. https://jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(21)00064-1/fulltext

Upcoming talk at UC Tech 2021: "Machine-Redacted Clinical Text, EMERSE, and Solr API: a data scientist-friendly environment for utilizing clinical notes for research" by Eric Meeks and Lakshmi Radhakrishnan. August 20, 2021. https://uctech.ucla.edu/sessions/machine-redac...

Please join us for an "EMERSE 101" live online tutorial, Wednesday August 18, 2021 from 2-3 PM ET. The registration is free and the tutorial is open to anyone, anywhere. Register at this link: https://research.medicine.umich.edu/workshops/emerse-101

"EMERSE...was used to confirm the diagnosis of PK, as some of the ICD-9 and 10 codes for PK included other diagnoses" in paper "The Malignancy Potential of Porokeratosis: A Single-Center Retrospective Study" https://cureus.com/articles/50985-the-mal...

EMESE was used in the paper "The paradoxical relationship between severity of cerebral palsy and renal function in middle-aged adults: better renal function or inappropriate clinical assessment?" https://tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09638288.2021.1890841

EMERSE was used to identify COVID-19 patient who had tracheal NAAT testing for SARS-CoV-2. Main conclusion: "patients with tracheostomies may have a higher false negative rate if only one site is assessed for SARS-CoV-2" https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/lary.29617

Study: "Change in swallow function after supraglottoplasty". EMERSE was used to identify patients with notes containing the word "laryngomalacia" http://theajo.com/article/view/4353/html

EMERSE was utilized to identify patients with tumors who underwent tumor genomic profiling in abstract "Identification and utilization of solid tumor genomic sequencing in the treatment of ovarian and endometrial cancer" https://ejgo.imrpress.com/EN/10.31083/j.ejgo.2021.02.2388

EMERSE was used to find a cohort of IBS-C patients in the study: "Baseline Predictors of Discontinuation of Prescription Drug Therapy for IBS-C: Cohort Analysis at an Integrated Healthcare System" https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10620-021-06963-x

EMERSE was used to identify clinical and outcomes data for the paper "Laparoscopic Adrenal-sparing Approach for Children with Bilateral Pheochromocytoma in Von Hippel-Lindau Disease" https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022346821003092

"Evaluating the Impact of CYP3A5 Genotype on Post-Transplant Healthcare Resource Utilization in Pediatric Renal and Heart Transplant Recipients Receiving Tacrolimus". Non-discrete variables (eg, biopsy results) were abstracted with EMERSE. https://dovepress.com/evaluating-the-impact-of-cyp...

EMERSE-supported paper: "Does the timing of pouch creation in 2-stage operations for pediatric patients with ulcerative colitis matter?" https://jpedsurg.org/article/S0022-34...

37 cases of transient neonatal myasthenia gravis were identified using EMERSE for a paper that focused on "refining risk estimate for infants born to women with myasthenia gravis". https://nature.com/articles/s41372-021-00970-6

EMERSE was used for "in-depth chart reviews...including all pertinent documentation, imaging, and pathology reports." in study of "...Soft Tissue Sarcoma on Rates of Unplanned Resection, Metastatic Disease, Mortality, and Morbid Re-Resection Over 20 Years https://doi.org/10.3928/01477447-20210104-05

"Firework injuries before and after the Michigan Firework Safety Act" paper used EMERSE. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/acem.14218

"EMERSE was used to search for statin medication names throughout the medical record" in study of patient outcomes with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ijc.33441

EMERSE was used in study "Optimal body size adjustment of L3 CT skeletal muscle area for sarcopenia assessment", with a goal to develop "unbiased assessments of relative L3 skeletal muscle area across the full range of body sizes" https://nature.com/articles/s41598-020-79471-z

Patients with a Standardized Seizure Action Plan (sZAP) were found in the EHR using EMERSE for the study "Implementation of a Standardized Seizure Action Plan to Improve Communication and Parental Education" https://pedneur.com/article/S08...

EMERSE was used to find patients with advanced epithelial ovarian cancer receiving neoadjuvant chemotherapy in a study that compared laparotomy with robot-assisted interval debulking surgery. https://jmig.org/article/S1553-4650(20)31133-X/fulltext

EMERSE 6.1 is now available. Check out the video at this link to see what's new: https://vimeo.com/545475578

EMERSE was used in a study exploring social determinants of health (SDOH) such as food and housing insecurity: "The social determinants of health and the electronic health record (EHR): Who is doing what?" https://apha.confex.com/apha/2020/meetin...

"Radiation-Induced Imaging Changes and Cerebral Edema following Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Brain AVMs" paper used EMERSE to identify 128 patients treated with SRS for brain AVMs. http://ajnr.org/content/early/2020/11/19/ajnr.A6880.long

EMERSE was used to support the dissertation by Khyati Patel at the UNC School of nursing: "Quality Improvement Project To Enhance Onboarding Of New Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) At A University Based Outpatient Neurology Clinic" https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/concern/dissertations/fb494j144

EMERSE was used to study 147 women at high risk for tubo-ovarian carcinoma. Conclusion: "Preoperative transvaginal US had low sensitivity for detecting TOC in women at high risk for TOC." https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/suppl/10.1148/rycan.2020190086

"Musculoskeletal findings on MRI among postpartum women with persistent pelvic pain" paper used EMERSE to search for terms like "pelvic MRI" and "Michigan Healthy Healing After Delivery". https://link.springer.com/article/10.1...

EMERSE supported the work "Clinical Documentation of Peanut Allergy Prevention in an Academic Learning Health System." https://jacionline.org/article/S009...

"Contemporary incidence of medical inoperability in clinical stage I endometrial cancer" study used EMERSE, and was presented at the 51st Annual Meeting of the Society of Gynecologic Oncology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygyno.2020.05.374

EMERSE used in paper "Glomus tumors with malignant features of the extremities: a case series" Conclusion:: "...wide-local resection with the goal of negative margins is still the current gold standard treatment for glomus tumors with malignant features" https://clinicalsarcomaresearch.biomedcentral.co...

"Incidental Right Ventricular Abnormalities On Single Photon Emission CT Scan Significantly Predicts Development Of Pulmonary Hypertension In Black Females" study used EMERSE to identify relevant cases. https://journal.chestnet.org/actio...

"Sleep impairment is related to health-related quality of life among caregivers of lower-functioning traumatic brain injury survivors" paper used EMERSE for participant recruitment. https://doi.org/10.1037/rep0000334

EMERSE was used to identify patients with DMS using terms like "dorsal midbrain syndrome", "pineal", & "midbrain stroke" in paper: "Dorsal Midbrain Syndrome Clinical and Imaging Features in 75 Cases". About half of cases were caused by tumors. https://journals.lww.com/jneuro-ophthalmology/Abstract/900...

Recruitment of study subjects was aided with EMERSE for the paper, "Health Literacy, Health Outcomes, and the Caregiver Role in Traumatic Brain Injury" https://doi.org/10.1037/rep0000330

"Discriminating pseudoprogression and true progression in diffuse infiltrating glioma using multi-parametric MRI data through deep learning" used EMERSE to identify cases for the study. https://nature.com/articles/s41598-020-77389-0

"Children at the Intersection of Pediatric Palliative Care and Child Maltreatment: A Vulnerable and Understudied Population" used EMERSE & found that "medical neglect is a relatively frequent maltreatment concern in children cared for by PPC" https://jpsmjournal.com/article/S0885-3924(20)30871-X/fulltext

EMERSE was used to identify 71 patients with "cutaneous BCC of the auricular or periauricular region" in paper "Treatment and Outcomes for Cutaneous Periauricular Basal Cell Carcinoma: A 16-Year Institutional Experience" https://doi.org/10.1177/2473974X20964735

"Identification and Utilization of Genetic Mutations in the Treatment of Ovarian Cancer" used EMERSE to find "patients diagnosed with ovarian, fallopian tube, and primary peritoneal cancer who underwent tumor genomic profiling". https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygyno.2020.05.464

"This study demonstrates how EMERSE can be used as an efficient and sensitive method for identifying patients with a rare cancer diagnosis directly from free-text clinical notes" -16TH ANNUAL ACADEM SURGICAL CONGRESS https://eventpilotadmin.com/web/pag...

EMERSE was used to identify prescriptions for naltrexone and buprenorphine–naloxone in a study "Opioid agonist and antagonist use and the gut microbiota: associations among people in addiction treatment". https://nature.com/articles/s41598-020-76570-9

EMERSE was used to recruit patients with Huntington's Disease for a study on speech and swallowing difficulties. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1...

EMERSE was used in the study, "Abdominal CT in COVID-19 patients: incidence, indications, and findings" and found that "most of these studies will be negative or have abdominal findings not associated with COVID-19" https://link.springer.com/article/10...

"Predicting severe outcomes in Covid-19 related illness using only patient demographics, comorbidities and symptoms" used EMERSE to identify COVID symptoms reported at the time of presentation. https://ajemjournal.com/article/S0735-6757(20)30809-3/fulltext

Study of chronic central venous occlusive disease used EMERSE to find patients with mentions of "Gianturco" and "Z–Stent" in their notes, concepts that cannot be found in structured data. https://dirjournal.org/en/gianturco-z-stent-placem...

EMERSE was used to help with participant recruitment for this study of persons with Huntington disease: "Responsiveness to change over time and test-retest reliability of the PROMIS and Neuro-QoL mental health measures..." https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-020-02596-1

Paper on "Establishment of a Pharmacogenetics Service..." in journal . EMERSE was "used to extract additional data of interest that could not be captured as a discrete variable..." https://mdpi.com/2075-4426/10/4/154

"Genetic mutations associated with susceptibility to perioperative complications in a longitudinal biorepository with integrated genomic and electronic health records" (used EMERSE) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bja.2020.08.009

"The cohort is one of the largest reported to date", reports a paper on Horner syndrome, aided by EMERSE which allowed for a "broader inclusion than studies dependent on personal files or discharge diagnoses." https://journals.lww.com/jneuro-ophthalmology/Abstract/20...

"Phenotypic features of ciliary dyskinesia among patients with congenital cardiovascular malformations" identified 36 subjects for the study with a medical record search using EMERSE. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppul.24959

Team including used EMERSE in the paper “Differential Outcomes and Biologic Markers of Radiation-Associated vs. Sporadic Osteosarcoma: A Single-Institution Experience” https://frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fonc.2019.01523

EMERSE was used to to identify patients for the paper, "Oral Lichen Planus-Associated Oral Cavity Squamous Cell Carcinoma Is Associated With Improved Survival and Increased Risk of Recurrence" by and team. https://joms.org/article/S0278-2391(19)30739-6/fulltext

"Caregivers of civilians with TBI were recruited" with the help of EMERSE and other tools in the paper "Assessing vigilance in caregivers after traumatic brain injury: TBI-CareQOL Caregiver Vigilance" published in . http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/rep0000302

EMERSE was used to help with, “Evaluating When and Why Patients Discontinue Chronic Therapy for Irritable Bowel Syndrome With Constipation and Chronic Idiopathic Constipation” by and team in #AmJGastro https://doi.org/10.14309/ajg.0000000000000530

EMERSE was used to help with participant recruitment of patients with Huntington Disease in a paper published in : “Understanding Domains That Influence Perceived Stigma in Individuals With Huntington Disease”. https://doi.org/10.1037/rep0000311

“Anti-factor IIa (FIIa) heparin assay for patients on direct factor Xa (FXa) inhibitors” published in : “INNOVANCE Heparin assay results from patients transitioning onto UFH from apixaban or rivaroxaban were isolated” by using EMERSE https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jth.14806

Paper in : "Cartilage icing and chondrocalcinosis on knee radiographs in the differentiation between gout and calcium pyrophosphate deposition" used EMERSE. Authors & team. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/articl...

Research team with used EMERSE in a paper published in , “A physician-pharmacist collaborative care model to prevent opioid misuse”. https://academic.oup.com/ajhp/arti...

Abstract published in J Pediatr Adolesc Gynecol: "Patients were identified using provider specific keywords in our Electronic Medical Record Search Engine (EMERSE), such as 'developmental delay' and 'developmental disability.' " https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1083318820300358

An observational cohort study conducted by and colleagues used EMERSE in the paper “Podocyte stress and detachment measured in urine are related to mean arterial pressure in healthy humans”, published in https://kidney-international.org/article/S00...

EMERSE was used to help with EHR data collection by in a paper about "Efficacy of Early Pleurectomy for Severe Congenital Chylothorax” in . https://journalofsurgicalresearch.com/article/S...

EMERSE was used to identify patients with arteriovenous malformations treated with stereotactic radiosurgery in recent paper in the Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases. https://sciencedirect.com/science/articl...

A paper about EMERSE for cancer research appears in this issue. https://ascopubs.org/doi/full/10.1200/CCI.19.00134

"Over half of gynecologic cancer patients reported aromatase inhibitor side effects" in #GynOnc paper that used EMERSE, according to authors and team. https://gynecologiconcology-online.net/article/S00...

This paper in used EMERSE to identify patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD): https://nature.com/articles/s41598-020-69013-y

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