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Nicole Onorato

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Snapshot
Articles 15
Citations 103
Followers 0
Related Specialties
Medical Informatics
General Medicine
Nursing
Top 10 Co-Authors
Margaret V McDonald
Yolanda Barron
Maxim Topaz
Sridevi Sridharan
David Russell
Maryam Zolnoori
Kenrick Cato
Penny H Feldman
Paulina Sockolow
Kathryn H Bowles
Published In
J Am Med Inform Assoc
J Am Med Dir Assoc
Comput Inform Nurs
JMIR Res Protoc
Pilot Feasibility Stud
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Recent Articles
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Beyond electronic health record data: leveraging natural language processing and machine learning to uncover cognitive insights from patient-nurse verbal communications
Zolnoori M, Zolnour A, Vergez S, Sridharan S, Spens I, Topaz M, et al.
J Am Med Inform Assoc . 2024 Dec; 32(2):328-340. PMID: 39667364
Background: Mild cognitive impairment and early-stage dementia significantly impact healthcare utilization and costs, yet more than half of affected patients remain underdiagnosed. This study leverages audio-recorded patient-nurse verbal communication in...
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Decoding disparities: evaluating automatic speech recognition system performance in transcribing Black and White patient verbal communication with nurses in home healthcare
Zolnoori M, Vergez S, Xu Z, Esmaeili E, Zolnour A, Anne Briggs K, et al.
JAMIA Open . 2024 Dec; 7(4):ooae130. PMID: 39659993
Objectives: As artificial intelligence evolves, integrating speech processing into home healthcare (HHC) workflows is increasingly feasible. Audio-recorded communications enhance risk identification models, with automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems as a...
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Covid-19: Home Health Aides' Perceived Preparedness and Self-Reported Availability for Work: Six Month Survey Results
Feldman P, Barron Y, Onorato N, Russell D, Sterling M, McDonald M
New Solut . 2023 Sep; 33(2-3):130-148. PMID: 37670604
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic New York City home health aides continuously provided care, including to patients actively infected or recovering from COVID-19. Analyzing survey data from 1316 aides, we examined...
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A Qualitative Study of Home Health Aides' Perspectives towards COVID-19 Vaccination
Russell D, Onorato N, Stern A, Vergez S, Oberlink M, Luebke M, et al.
J Appl Gerontol . 2022 Oct; 42(4):660-669. PMID: 36210760
Home health aides provide care to homebound older adults and those with chronic conditions. Aides were less likely to receive COVID-19 vaccines when they became available. We examined aides' perspectives...
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Risk of Rehospitalization or Emergency Department Visit is Significantly Higher for Patients who Receive Their First Home Health Care Nursing Visit Later than 2 Days After Hospital Discharge
Topaz M, Barron Y, Song J, Onorato N, Sockolow P, Zolnoori M, et al.
J Am Med Dir Assoc . 2022 Aug; 23(10):1642-1647. PMID: 35931136
Objectives: This study explored the association between the timing of the first home health care nursing visits (start-of-care visit) and 30-day rehospitalization or emergency department (ED) visits among patients discharged...
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Feasibility of deploying peer coaches to mentor frontline home health aides and promote mobility among individuals recovering from a stroke: pilot test of a randomized controlled trial
Feldman P, McDonald M, Onorato N, Stein J, Williams O
Pilot Feasibility Stud . 2022 Feb; 8(1):22. PMID: 35101133
Background: Each year, approximately 100,000 individuals receive home health services after a stroke. Evidence has shown the benefits of home-based stroke rehabilitation, but little is known about resource-efficient ways to...
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Exploring Reasons for Delayed Start-of-Care Nursing Visits in Home Health Care: Algorithm Development and Data Science Study
Zolnoori M, Song J, McDonald M, Barron Y, Cato K, Sockolow P, et al.
JMIR Nurs . 2021 Dec; 4(4):e31038. PMID: 34967749
Background: Delayed start-of-care nursing visits in home health care (HHC) can result in negative outcomes, such as hospitalization. No previous studies have investigated why start-of-care HHC nursing visits are delayed,...
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Factors Associated with Timing of the Start-of-Care Nursing Visits in Home Health Care
Song J, Zolnoori M, McDonald M, Barron Y, Cato K, Sockolow P, et al.
J Am Med Dir Assoc . 2021 Apr; 22(11):2358-2365.e3. PMID: 33844990
Objectives: Home health care patients have critical needs requiring timely care following hospital discharge. Although Medicare requires timely start-of-care nursing visits, a significant portion of home health care patients wait...
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Improving Patient Prioritization During Hospital-Homecare Transition: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study of a Clinical Decision Support Tool Implementation
Zolnoori M, McDonald M, Barron Y, Cato K, Sockolow P, Sridharan S, et al.
JMIR Res Protoc . 2021 Jan; 10(1):e20184. PMID: 33480855
Background: Homecare settings across the United States provide care to more than 5 million patients every year. About one in five homecare patients are rehospitalized during the homecare episode, with...
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Nursing documentation of symptoms is associated with higher risk of emergency department visits and hospitalizations in homecare patients
Topaz M, Koleck T, Onorato N, Smaldone A, Bakken S
Nurs Outlook . 2021 Jan; 69(3):435-446. PMID: 33386145
Background: Nurses often document patient symptoms in narrative notes. Purpose: This study used a technique called natural language processing (NLP) to: (1) Automatically identify documentation of seven common symptoms (anxiety,...