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Linguistic approach for identification of medication names and related information in clinical narratives.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  20819862     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
BACKGROUND: Pharmacotherapy is an integral part of any medical care process and plays an important role in the medical history of most patients. Information on medication is crucial for several tasks such as pharmacovigilance, medical decision or biomedical research.
OBJECTIVES: Within a narrative text, medication-related information can be buried within other non-relevant data. Specific methods, such as those provided by text mining, must be designed for accessing them, and this is the objective of this study.
METHODS: The authors designed a system for analyzing narrative clinical documents to extract from them medication occurrences and medication-related information. The system also attempts to deduce medications not covered by the dictionaries used.
RESULTS: Results provided by the system were evaluated within the framework of the I2B2 NLP challenge held in 2009. The system achieved an F-measure of 0.78 and ranked 7th out of 20 participating teams (the highest F-measure was 0.86). The system provided good results for the annotation and extraction of medication names, their frequency, dosage and mode of administration (F-measure over 0.81), while information on duration and reasons is poorly annotated and extracted (F-measure 0.36 and 0.29, respectively). The performance of the system was stable between the training and test sets.
Authors:
Thierry Hamon; Natalia Grabar
Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA     Volume:  17     ISSN:  1527-974X     ISO Abbreviation:  J Am Med Inform Assoc     Publication Date:    2010 Sep-Oct
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2010-09-07     Completed Date:  2010-11-15     Revised Date:  2011-09-13    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  9430800     Medline TA:  J Am Med Inform Assoc     Country:  United States    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  549-54     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
UFR SMBH Léonard de Vinci, Université Paris 13, 93017 Bobigny Cedex, France. thierry.hamon@univ-paris13.fr
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Drug Therapy
Electronic Health Records*
Humans
Information Storage and Retrieval / methods*
Linguistics
Natural Language Processing*
Pharmaceutical Preparations*
Software Design
Chemical
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0/Pharmaceutical Preparations
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