Ascertainment of Asthma Prognosis Using Natural Language Processing from Electronic Medical Records

Publication date: Available online 10 February 2018
Source:Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
Author(s): Sunghwan Sohn, Chung-Il Wi, Stephen T. Wu, Hongfang Liu, Euijung Ryu, Elizabeth Krusemark, Alicia Seabright, Gretchen A. Voge, Young J. Juhn
NLP algorithm successfully determined asthma prognosis (i.e., no remission, long-term remission, and intermittent remission) by taking into account asthma symptoms documented in EMR, and addressed the limitations of billing code-based asthma outcome assessment.



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