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Improving a full-text search engine: the importance of negation detection and family history context to identify cases in a biomedical data warehouse

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Garcelon, Nicolas, Neuraz, Antoine, Benoit, Vincent, Salomon, Rémi, Burgun, Anita·2017·Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

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Objective: The repurposing of electronic health records (EHRs) can improve clinical and genetic research for rare diseases. However, significant information in rare disease EHRs is embedded in the narrative reports, which contain many negated clinical signs and family medical history. This paper presents a method to detect family history and negation in narrative reports and evaluates its impact on selecting populations from a clinical data warehouse (CDW). Materials and Methods: We developed a pipeline to process 1.6 million reports from multiple sources. This pipeline is part of the load process of the Necker Hospital CDW. Results: We identified patients with “Lupus and diarrhea,” “Crohn’s and diabetes,” and “NPHP1” from the CDW. The overall precision, recall, specificity, and F-measure were 0.85, 0.98, 0.93, and 0.91, respectively. Conclusion: The proposed method generates a highly accurate identification of cases from a CDW of rare disease EHRs.

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Authors
Garcelon, N., Neuraz, A., Benoit, V., Salomon, R., & Burgun, A.
Affiliations
  • Inserm (FR)
  • Institut Imagine, Paris Descartes Université Paris Descartes-Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France
  • Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades (FR)
Corresponding author
Garcelon, Nicolas
Venue
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
Published
2016-10-20
Volume
24
Issue
3
Pages
607-613
ISSN
  • 1067-5027 (ISSN-L)
  • 1527-974X
OpenAlex
W2532802663
Cited by
48
References
29
Citations by year
2025: 2 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 14 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 7 · 2017: 4
FWCI
2.77
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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  • Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • HAL (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Machine Learning in Healthcare
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › Health Information Management › Electronic Health Records Systems
Keywords
negation detection, full-text search engine, rare diseases, clinical data warehouse, electronic health records, case finding, NPHP1, Crohn's disease, lupus
MeSH terms
Data Warehousing, Family Health, Humans, Medical History Taking, Natural Language Processing, Information Storage and Retrieval, Rare Diseases, Electronic Health Records, Search Engine

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