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Text mining applied to electronic cardiovascular procedure reports to identify patients with trileaflet aortic stenosis and coronary artery disease.
Journal of biomedical informatics - 1 Aug 2017
Small Aeron M, Kiss Daniel H, Zlatsin Yevgeny, Birtwell David L, Williams Heather, Guerraty Marie A, Han Yuchi, Anwaruddin Saif, Holmes John H, Chirinos Julio A, Wilensky Robert L, Giri Jay, Rader Daniel J
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BACKGROUND: Interrogation of the electronic health record (EHR) using billing codes as a surrogate for diagnoses of interest has been widely used for clinical research. However, the accuracy of this methodology is variable, as it reflects billing codes rather than severity of disease, and depends on the disease and the accuracy of the coding practitioner. Systematic application of text mining to the EHR has had...
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