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Text-mining in electronic healthcare records can be used as efficient tool for screening and data collection in cardiovascular trials: a multicenter validation study

van Dijk, WB; Fiolet, ATL; Schuit, E; Sammani, A; Groenhof, TKJ; van der Graaf, R; de Vries, MC; ... Mosterd, A; + view all (2021) Text-mining in electronic healthcare records can be used as efficient tool for screening and data collection in cardiovascular trials: a multicenter validation study. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology , 132 pp. 97-105. 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2020.11.014. Green open access

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Abstract

Objective: This study aimed to validate trial patient eligibility screening and baseline data collection using text-mining in electronic healthcare records (EHRs), comparing the results to those of an international trial. Study Design and Setting: In three medical centers with different EHR vendors, EHR-based text-mining was used to automatically screen patients for trial eligibility and extract baseline data on nineteen characteristics. First, the yield of screening with automated EHR text-mining search was compared with manual screening by research personnel. Second, the accuracy of extracted baseline data by EHR text mining was compared to manual data entry by research personnel. Results: Of the 92,466 patients visiting the out-patient cardiology departments, 568 (0.6%) were enrolled in the trial during its recruitment period using manual screening methods. Automated EHR data screening of all patients showed that the number of patients needed to screen could be reduced by 73,863 (79.9%). The remaining 18,603 (20.1%) contained 458 of the actual participants (82.4% of participants). In trial participants, automated EHR text-mining missed a median of 2.8% (Interquartile range [IQR] across all variables 0.4e8.5%) of all data points compared to manually collected data. The overall accuracy of automatically extracted data was 88.0% (IQR 84.7e92.8%). Conclusion: Automatically extracting data from EHRs using text-mining can be used to identify trial participants and to collect baseline information

Type: Article
Title: Text-mining in electronic healthcare records can be used as efficient tool for screening and data collection in cardiovascular trials: a multicenter validation study
Location: United States
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2020.11.014
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2020.11.014
Language: English
Additional information: This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Keywords: Text-mining; Data-mining; Electronic healthcare records (EHRs); Electronic medical records (EMRs); Cardiovascular; Trials; Multicenter; Recruitment; Screening; Data-collections; LoDoCo2
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Health Informatics
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10120688
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