Annotation and extraction of age and temporally-related events from clinical histories.

Journal: BMC medical informatics and decision making
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Age and time information stored within the histories of clinical notes can provide valuable insights for assessing a patient's disease risk, understanding disease progression, and studying therapeutic outcomes. However, details of age and temporally-specified clinical events are not well captured, consistently codified, and readily available to research databases for study.

Authors

  • Judy Hong
    Department of Life Sciences and Management, University of Pennsylvania, 425 S. University Ave, Levin 101, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA.
  • Anahita Davoudi
    Biostatistics, Epidemiology & Informatics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
  • Shun Yu
    Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
  • Danielle L Mowery
    Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT.