Development of a natural language processing algorithm to detect chronic cough in electronic health records

Development of a natural language processing algorithm to detect chronic cough in electronic health records

Abstract Background Chronic cough (CC) is difficult to identify in electronic health records (EHRs) due to the lack of specific diagnostic codes. We developed a natural language processing (NLP) model to identify cough in free-text provider notes in EHRs from multiple health care providers with the...

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Main Authors: Vishal Bali, Jessica Weaver, Vladimir Turzhitsky, Jonathan Schelfhout, Misti L. Paudel, Erin Hulbert, Jesse Peterson-Brandt, Anne-Marie Guerra Currie, Dylan Bakka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2022-06-01
Series:BMC Pulmonary Medicine
Subjects:
Cough
Chronic cough
Natural language processing
Electronic health records
Sensitivity and specificity
Diagnostic test accuracy study
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12890-022-02035-6

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https://doi.org/10.1186/s12890-022-02035-6

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