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
Published Date:
May 15, 2017
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.