Natural Language Processing for Asthma Ascertainment in Different Practice Settings.

Journal: The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practice
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: We developed and validated NLP-PAC, a natural language processing (NLP) algorithm based on predetermined asthma criteria (PAC) for asthma ascertainment using electronic health records at Mayo Clinic.

Authors

  • Chung-Il Wi
    Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn; Asthma Epidemiology Research Unit, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.
  • Sunghwan Sohn
    Department of Artificial Intelligence and Informatics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA.
  • Mir Ali
    Department of Pediatrics, Sanford Children's Hospital, Sioux Falls, SD.
  • Elizabeth Krusemark
    Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn; Asthma Epidemiology Research Unit, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.
  • Euijung Ryu
    Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, 55905, USA.
  • Hongfang Liu
    Department of Artificial Intelligence & Informatics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States.
  • Young J Juhn
    Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn; Asthma Epidemiology Research Unit, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. Electronic address: Juhn.young@mayo.edu.