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Extracting a stroke phenotype risk factor from Veteran Health Administration clinical reports: an information content analysis.
Journal of biomedical semantics - 1 Jan 2016
Mowery Danielle L, Chapman Brian E, Conway Mike, South Brett R, Madden Erin, Keyhani Salomeh, Chapman Wendy W
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BACKGROUND: In the United States, 795,000 people suffer strokes each year; 10-15 % of these strokes can be attributed to stenosis caused by plaque in the carotid artery, a major stroke phenotype risk factor. Studies comparing treatments for the management of asymptomatic carotid stenosis are challenging for at least two reasons: 1) administrative billing codes (i.e., Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes)...
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