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Using clinician mental models to guide annotation of medically unexplained symptoms and syndromes found in VA clinical documents
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Medically unexplained syndromes (MUS) are conditions that are diagnosed on the basis of symptom constellations and are characterized by a lack of well-defined pathogenic pathways. The three most common MUS are chronic fatigue … read more… Medically unexplained syndromes (MUS) are conditions that are diagnosed on the basis of … well-defined pathogenic pathways. The three most common MUS are chronic fatigue syndrome, irritable bowel syndrome, … Patients often meet the criteria for more than one MUS. Objectives We sought to develop a guideline and … -
Finding medically unexplained symptoms within VA clinical documents using v3NLP
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Pro-WATCH (protecting war fighters using algorithms for text processing to capture health events), a syndromic surveillance project for veterans of operation enduring freedom (OEF)/operation Iraqi freedom (OIF), includes a task to identify medically… read more… a task to identify medically unexplained symptoms (MUS). The v3NLP entity extraction tool is being customized … and 2University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA E-mail: guy.divita@hsc.utah.edu Objective Pro-WATCH (protecting war … language processing system. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 26 July 2006;6:30. 2 Cunningham H, Maynard D, Bontcheva K, … -
Standardization to aid interoperability between NLP system
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There are a number of Natural Language Processing (NLP) annotation and Information Extraction (IE) systems and platforms that have been successfully used within the medical domain. Although these groups share components of their systems, there… read more… IN, USA; and 11NLM, Bethesda, MD, USA E-mail: guy.divita@hsc.utah.edu Objective The Consortium for …