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Defining a comprehensive verotype using electronic health records for personalized medicine.
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA - 1 Dec 2013
Boland Mary Regina, Hripcsak George, Shen Yufeng, Chung Wendy K, Weng Chunhua
Abstract excerpt
The burgeoning adoption of electronic health records (EHR) introduces a golden opportunity for studying individual manifestations of myriad diseases, which is called 'EHR phenotyping'. In this paper, we break down this concept by: relating it to phenotype definitions from Johannsen; comparing it to cohort identification and disease subtyping; introducing a new concept called 'verotype' (Latin: vere = true,...
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