Community-Acquired Pneumonia Case Validation in an Anonymized Electronic Medical Record-Linked Expert System.

Journal: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
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Abstract

An electronic anonymized patient portal analysis using radiographic reports and admission and discharge diagnoses had sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value of 84.7%, 78.2%, 75%, and 87%, respectively, for community-acquired pneumonia validated against a blinded expert medical review. This approach can help to track antimicrobial use and resistance.

Authors

  • Amartya Mukhopadhyay
    Department of Medicine and.
  • Mahendran Maliapen
    Academic Informatics Office, National University Hospital, National University Health System, and.
  • Venetia Ong
    Department of Medicine and.
  • Rupert W Jakes
    Worldwide Epidemiology, GlaxoSmithKline, Singapore; and.
  • Linda M Mundy
    Worldwide Epidemiology, GlaxoSmithKline, Inc, Collegeville, PA.
  • Li Jialiang
    Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, National University of Singapore.
  • Paul A Tambyah
    Department of Medicine and.