Can Big Data Simplify the Complexity of Modern Medicine?: Prediction of Right Ventricular Failure After Left Ventricular Assist Device Support as a Test Case

JACC Heart Fail. 2016 Sep;4(9):722-5. doi: 10.1016/j.jchf.2016.06.004. Epub 2016 Aug 10.

Authors

Tariq Ahmad¹, Jeffrey M Testani², Nihar R Desai²

Affiliations

¹ Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Yale New Haven Hospital and Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut. Electronic address: tariq.ahmad@yale.edu.
² Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Yale New Haven Hospital and Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.

PMID: 27522632
DOI: 10.1016/j.jchf.2016.06.004

No abstract available

Keywords: big data; machine learning; risk prediction.

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MeSH terms

Heart Failure*
Heart-Assist Devices*
Humans
Ventricular Dysfunction, Left
Ventricular Dysfunction, Right