| Automated identification of postoperative complications within an electronic medical record using natural language processing. | |
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PMID: 21862746 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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CONTEXT: Currently most automated methods to identify patient safety occurrences rely on administrative data codes; however, free-text searches of electronic medical records could represent an additional surveillance approach. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate a natural language processing search-approach to identify postoperative surgical complications within a comprehensive electronic medical record. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PATIENTS: Cross-sectional study involving 2974 patients undergoing inpatient surgical procedures at 6 Veterans Health Administration (VHA) medical centers from 1999 to 2006. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Postoperative occurrences of acute renal failure requiring dialysis, deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, sepsis, pneumonia, or myocardial infarction identified through medical record review as part of the VA Surgical Quality Improvement Program. We determined the sensitivity and specificity of the natural language processing approach to identify these complications and compared its performance with patient safety indicators that use discharge coding information. RESULTS: The proportion of postoperative events for each sample was 2% (39 of 1924) for acute renal failure requiring dialysis, 0.7% (18 of 2327) for pulmonary embolism, 1% (29 of 2327) for deep vein thrombosis, 7% (61 of 866) for sepsis, 16% (222 of 1405) for pneumonia, and 2% (35 of 1822) for myocardial infarction. Natural language processing correctly identified 82% (95% confidence interval [CI], 67%-91%) of acute renal failure cases compared with 38% (95% CI, 25%-54%) for patient safety indicators. Similar results were obtained for venous thromboembolism (59%, 95% CI, 44%-72% vs 46%, 95% CI, 32%-60%), pneumonia (64%, 95% CI, 58%-70% vs 5%, 95% CI, 3%-9%), sepsis (89%, 95% CI, 78%-94% vs 34%, 95% CI, 24%-47%), and postoperative myocardial infarction (91%, 95% CI, 78%-97%) vs 89%, 95% CI, 74%-96%). Both natural language processing and patient safety indicators were highly specific for these diagnoses. CONCLUSION: Among patients undergoing inpatient surgical procedures at VA medical centers, natural language processing analysis of electronic medical records to identify postoperative complications had higher sensitivity and lower specificity compared with patient safety indicators based on discharge coding. |
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Authors:
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Harvey J Murff; Fern FitzHenry; Michael E Matheny; Nancy Gentry; Kristen L Kotter; Kimberly Crimin; Robert S Dittus; Amy K Rosen; Peter L Elkin; Steven H Brown; Theodore Speroff |
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Type: Journal Article; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. |
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Title: JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association Volume: 306 ISSN: 1538-3598 ISO Abbreviation: JAMA Publication Date: 2011 Aug |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2011-08-24 Completed Date: 2011-08-25 Revised Date: 2011-12-07 |
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Nlm Unique ID: 7501160 Medline TA: JAMA Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 848-55 Citation Subset: AIM; IM |
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Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA. harvey.j.murff@vanderbilt.edu |
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Automation Cross-Sectional Studies Diagnosis-Related Groups Electronic Health Records* Hospitalization Hospitals, Veterans / statistics & numerical data Humans Information Storage and Retrieval* Inpatients International Classification of Diseases Myocardial Infarction / epidemiology Natural Language Processing* Patient Discharge / statistics & numerical data Pneumonia / epidemiology Population Surveillance Postoperative Complications / epidemiology* Pulmonary Embolism / epidemiology Quality Indicators, Health Care* Renal Insufficiency / epidemiology Safety Sensitivity and Specificity Sepsis / epidemiology Surgical Procedures, Operative United States / epidemiology Venous Thrombosis / epidemiology |
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JAMA. 2011 Dec 7;306(21):2325; author reply 2325-6
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JAMA. 2011 Aug 24;306(8):880-1 [PMID: 21862751 ] |
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