Extracting Structured Medication Event Information from Discharge Summaries
Extracting Structured Medication Event Information from Discharge Summaries
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2008-11
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Sigfried Gold;Noémie Elhadad;Xinxin Zhu;J. Cimino;G. Hripcsak
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Sigfried Gold;Noémie Elhadad;Xinxin Zhu;J. Cimino;G. Hripcsak
We present a method that extracts medication information from discharge summaries. The program relies on parsing rules written as a set of regular expressions and on a user-configurable drug lexicon. Our evaluation shows a precision of 94% and recall of 83% in the extraction of medication information. We use a broader definition of medication information than previous studies, including drug names appearing with and without dosage information, misspelled drug names, and contextual information.