A Data-Driven Iterative Approach for Semi-automatically Assessing the Correctness of Medication Value Sets: A Proof of Concept Based on Opioids.

Journal: Methods of information in medicine
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Value sets are lists of terms (e.g., opioid medication names) and their corresponding codes from standard clinical vocabularies (e.g., RxNorm) created with the intent of supporting health information exchange and research. Value sets are manually-created and often exhibit errors.

Authors

  • Linyi Li
    School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China.
  • Adela Grando
    College of Health Solutions, Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona, United States.
  • Abeed Sarker
    Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States.