A method for modeling co-occurrence propensity of clinical codes with application to ICD-10-PCS auto-coding.
Journal:
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Published Date:
Feb 17, 2016
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: Natural language processing methods for medical auto-coding, or automatic generation of medical billing codes from electronic health records, generally assign each code independently of the others. They may thus assign codes for closely related procedures or diagnoses to the same document, even when they do not tend to occur together in practice, simply because the right choice can be difficult to infer from the clinical narrative.