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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… consistently applied to identify MUS found in VA clinical documents. These efforts will support building a … Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom veterans. Document … to 3314, with an average of 17 symptom annotations per document. The number of annotations (unique mentions) for … -
Extracting Surveillance Data from Templated Sections of an Electronic Medical Note: Challenges and Opportunities
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The main stay of recording patient data is the free text of electronic medical records (EMR). While stating the chief complaint and history of presenting illness in the patients ‘own words’, the rest of the electronic note is written by the provider… read more… often use boiler-plate templates from EMR pull-downs to document information on the patient in the form of … often use boiler-plate templates from EMR pull-downs to document information on the patient in the form of …