Evaluating electronic health record data sources and algorithmic approaches to identify hypertensive individuals

Conclusion This work shows that billing codes or blood pressure readings alone yield good hypertension classification performance. However, even simple combinations of input categories improve performance. The most complex algorithms classified hypertension with excellent recall and precision.

Source: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association - August 6, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: Teixeira, P. L., Wei, W.-Q., Cronin, R. M., Mo, H., VanHouten, J. P., Carroll, R. J., LaRose, E., Bastarache, L. A., Rosenbloom, S. T., Edwards, T. L., Roden, D. M., Lasko, T. A., Dart, R. A., Nikolai, A. M., Peissig, P. L., Denny, J. C. Tags: Research and Applications Source Type: research