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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 … to 3314, with an average of 17 symptom annotations per document. The number of annotations (unique mentions) for … -
Identifying Contextual Features to Improve the Performance of an Influenza-Like Illness Text Classifier
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To understand the types of false positive cases identified by an Influenza-like illness (ILI) text classifier by measuring the prevalence of ILI-related concepts that are negated, hypothetical, include explicit mention of temporality, experienced by… read more… on symptoms, problems, or findings from electronic note documents. False positive extractions may be due to concepts … of these strings. Two reviewers annotated the same document set with a third reviewer completing a blinded … version of the text classifier applied to surveillance document sources was 75% and 27% with 569(4%) false positive …