Assessing Information Congruence of Documented Cardiovascular Disease between Electronic Dental and Medical Records.

Assessing Information Congruence of Documented Cardiovascular Disease between Electronic Dental and Medical Records. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2018;2018:1442-1450 Authors: Patel J, Mowery D, Krishnan A, Thyvalikakath T Abstract Dentists are more often treating patients with Cardiovascular Diseases (CVD) in their clinics; therefore, dentists may need to alter treatment plans in the presence of CVD. However, it's unclear to what extent patient-reported CVD information is accurately captured in Electronic Dental Records (EDRs). In this pilot study, we aimed to measure the reliability of patient-reported CVD conditions in EDRs. We assessed information congruence by comparing patients' self-reported dental histories to their original diagnosis assigned by their medical providers in the Electronic Medical Record (EMR). To enable this comparison, we encoded patients CVD information from the free-text data of EDRs into a structured format using natural language processing (NLP). Overall, our NLP approach achieved promising performance extracting patients' CVD-related information. We observed disagreement between self-reported EDR data and physician-diagnosed EMR data. PMID: 30815189 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Source: AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings - Category: Bioinformatics Tags: AMIA Annu Symp Proc Source Type: research