Discovering and identifying New York heart association classification from electronic health records.

Journal: BMC medical informatics and decision making
Published Date: Jul 23, 2018

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT) is an established pacing therapy for heart failure patients. The New York Heart Association (NYHA) class is often used as a measure of a patient's response to CRT. Identifying NYHA class for heart failure (HF) patients in an electronic health record (EHR) consistently, over time, can provide better understanding of the progression of heart failure and assessment of CRT response and effectiveness. Though NYHA is rarely stored in EHR structured data, such information is often documented in unstructured clinical notes.

Authors

  • Rui Zhang
    Department of Cardiology, Zhongda Hospital, Medical School of Southeast University, Nanjing, China.
  • Sisi Ma
    Institute for Health Informatics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
  • Liesa Shanahan
    Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, MN, USA.
  • Jessica Munroe
    Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, MN, USA.
  • Sarah Horn
    Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis MN, USA.
  • Stuart Speedie
    Institute for Health Informatics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.

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