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There are 4 modules in this course
This course will introduce MIMIC-III, which is the largest publicly Electronic Health Record (EHR) database available to benchmark machine learning algorithms. In particular, you will learn about the design of this relational database, what tools are available to query, extract and visualise descriptive analytics.
The schema and International Classification of Diseases coding is important to understand how to map research questions to data and how to extract key clinical outcomes in order to develop clinically useful machine learning algorithms.
This module will introduce MIMIC-III, which is the largest publicly Electronic Health Record (EHR) database available to benchmark machine learning algorithms. In particular, you will learn about the design of this relational database, what tools are available to query, extract and visualise descriptive analytics.
The schema and International Classification of Diseases coding is important to understand how to map research questions to data and how to extract key clinical outcomes in order to develop clinically useful machine learning algorithms.
Welcome to Informed Clinical Decision Making Specialisation•1 minute
Welcome to the course•1 minute
Big Data in Healthcare•21 minutes
EHR System in the UK and USA•13 minutes
MIMIC Critical Care Dataset: The Impact•8 minutes
Data Usage Requirements•10 minutes
9 readings•Total 210 minutes
Specialization and course structure•10 minutes
Meet the team•10 minutes
Standardized electronic health record data•10 minutes
Migrating to electronic health record systems•90 minutes
The Belmont Report•60 minutes
Hardware requirements•5 minutes
Obtaining access to the MIMIC-III Dataset•10 minutes
Complete CITI course •10 minutes
MIMIC III - installation instructions•5 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
Week 1 Summary Quiz•30 minutes
2 discussion prompts•Total 20 minutes
Who are you and why are you here?•10 minutes
Week 1 - Your experience•10 minutes
MIMIC III as a relational database
Module 2•6 hours to complete
Module details
This week includes a discussion of the basic structure of MIMIC III database and practical exercises on how to extract and visualise summary statistics. We will understand the difficulty in defining clinical outcomes and we are going to examine clinical variables related to a specific patient.
What's included
5 videos7 readings1 assignment1 discussion prompt
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5 videos•Total 65 minutes
MIMIC-III Data Linkage•10 minutes
MIMIC-III as a Relational Database•12 minutes
MIMIC-III - Descriptive Statistics•16 minutes
Mortality and Length of Stay in MIMIC•11 minutes
Vital Signs Extraction for a Single Patient•15 minutes
7 readings•Total 240 minutes
MIMIC-III, a freely accessible critical care database•60 minutes
Practical Exercise: Extract heart rate data using Postgres and Python•30 minutes
Practical Exercise: Extract hospitalisation numbers using Postgres and Python•30 minutes
Practical Exercise: Extract age and gender using Postgres and Python•30 minutes
Practical Exercise: Extract mortality numbers using Postgres and Python•30 minutes
Practical Exercise: Extract length of stay numbers using Postgres and Python•30 minutes
Practical Exercise: Extract vital data from a single patient using Postgres and Python•30 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
Week 2 Summary quiz•30 minutes
1 discussion prompt•Total 10 minutes
Week 2 - Your experience•10 minutes
International Classification of Disease System
Module 3•5 hours to complete
Module details
This week discusses the history of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) system, which has been developed collaboratively so that the medical terms and information in death certificates can be grouped together for statistical purposes. Practical examples shows how to extract ICD-9 codes from MIMIC III database and visualise them. Furthermore, we discuss differences between ICD-9, ICD-10 and ICD-11 systems.
What's included
5 videos6 readings1 assignment1 discussion prompt
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5 videos•Total 53 minutes
Introduction to International Classification of Disease System•12 minutes
Evolution of the ICD System•12 minutes
ICD-9 and MIMIC-III•11 minutes
From ICD-9 to ICD-10•12 minutes
Special Signs in ICD-10•6 minutes
6 readings•Total 200 minutes
WHO and Health Statistics•40 minutes
History of the ICD•10 minutes
Practical Exercise: Extract patients' height using Postgres and Python•15 minutes
Practical Exercise: Extract table with days in ICU using Postgres and Python•15 minutes
Practical Exercise: Extract Glasgow Coma Scale using Postgres and Python•30 minutes
Practical Exercise: Extract ICD-9 related information using Postgres and Python•90 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
Week 3 summary quiz•30 minutes
1 discussion prompt•Total 10 minutes
Week 3 - Your experience•10 minutes
Concepts in MIMIC-III and an example of patients inclusion flowchart
Module 4•5 hours to complete
Module details
This week includes an overview of clinical concepts, which are statistical tools to provide illness scores. They are developed based on expert opinion and subsequently extended based on data-driven methods. These models are the precursor of machine learning models for precision medicine. Finally, the practical exercises of this week provides the opportunity to implement a complex flowchart of patients inclusion.
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