Automating Delirium Identification and Risk Prediction in Electronic Health Records (Supplement)

摘要 精神错乱或急性昏迷状态影响到30%-40%的住院老年人，估计增加的护理费用高达70亿美元。虽然最初被认为是一种短暂性精神障碍，但现在人们认识到，精神错乱具有显著的后果，包括死亡风险增加、功能衰退和长期的认知障碍。由于高达75%的病例没有得到提供者的认可，迫切需要先进的方法来识别临床和研究目的的精神错乱，并根据精神错乱的风险对患者进行分层。不幸的是，对精神错乱的监测非常耗时，导致很少有机构对所有老年人实施系统的筛查程序。使用常规精神错乱筛查评估的研究研究通常是在患者子集中进行的小型、单一机构研究，由于担心隐私、缺乏技术专业知识或其他考虑，这些研究不会发布他们的数据以供复制。不使用精神错乱筛查评估的流行病学研究依赖于替代措施，如灵敏度低至3%的行政代码，而不是图表审查，后者可以恢复高达74%的精神错乱病例。自然语言处理(NLP)和机器学习(ML)等先进方法有可能使这一图表审查过程自动化，并促进对精神错乱的大规模研究，但由于缺乏适合算法开发的数据而受到阻碍。我们建议利用通过阿拉巴马大学伯明翰分校(UAB)为老年人提供的虚拟急性护理(ACE)质量改进计划提供的系统性精神错乱筛查来创建和发布未识别的精神错乱数据集，以解决精神错乱流行病学研究中的数据和诊断空白。我们的虚拟ACE计划在六年的时间里确定了超过33,000名患者的精神错乱状态，为本项目提供了丰富的数据集。我们将测试这样一个假设，即我们基于迁移学习的去识别方法可以帮助注释者更快地去识别临床文本，从而为更大、更快、更广泛可用的数据集发布打开大门。为了验证整个数据集的实用性，我们将确定我们的去识别语料库的统计能力，以检测在常用的ML研究设计中有无精神错乱的参与者之间的差异。 我们的Delirium数据集发布，包含3,000个未识别的临床笔记和相关的结构数据，将是有史以来发布的最大的文本语料库之一，也是专门用于Delirium研究的唯一文本包容语料库。建议的数据集将在Physionet上下载，并附有数据使用协议(DUA)，以促进进一步开发NLP和ML方法，通过转移学习确定其他机构和其他人群的精神错乱状况、风险因素和后遗症。我们的去身份识别算法和方法的发布也将促进在其他地方开发和发布大规模文本语料库 疾患

ABSTRACT Delirium, or acute confusional state, affects 30-40% of hospitalized older adults, with the added cost of care estimated to be up to $7 billion. Although originally conceptualized as a transient disorder, delirium is now recognized to have significant consequences, including increased risk of death, functional decline, and long-term cognitive impairment. As up to 75% of cases are not recognized by providers, there is an critical need for advanced methods to identify delirium for clinical and research purposes, and to stratify patients based on delirium risk. Unfortunately, surveillance of delirium is time consuming, resulting in few institutions implementing systematic screening procedures on all older adults. Research studies that use regular delirium screening assessments are typically small, single institution studies in a subset of patients that do not release their data for replication due to concern over privacy, lack of technical expertise, or other concerns. Epidemiological studies that do not use delirium screening assessments rely on proxy measures, such administrative codes with sensitivity as low as 3%, instead of chart review which can recover up to 74% of delirium cases. Advanced methods such as natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML) have the potential to automate this chart review process and facilitate large-scale studies of delirium, but are hampered by lack of suitable data for algorithm development. We propose to leverage systematic delirium screening available through the University of Alabama of Birmingham (UAB) Virtual Acute Care for Elders (ACE) quality improvement program to create and release a de-identified delirium dataset to address the data and diagnosis gap in epidemiological studies of delirium. Our Virtual ACE program has determined delirium status on more than 33,000 patients across a six-year period, providing a rich set of data from which this project will draw. We will test the hypothesis that our transfer learning based deidentification method can assist annotators to more rapidly de-identify clinical text, opening the door to larger, faster, more widely available dataset releases. To validate the utility of the full dataset, we will determine the statistical power of our de-identified corpus to detect differences between participants with and without delirium in commonly used ML study designs. Our delirium dataset release, containing 3,000 de-identified clinical notes and associated structural data, will be one of the largest text corpora ever released and the only text inclusive corpora specifically for the study of delirium. The proposed dataset will be available for download on Physionet with a Data Use Agreement (DUA) to facilitate further development of NLP and ML approaches for determining delirium status, risk factors, and sequelae at other institutions and in other populations by transfer learning. Release of our de-identification algorithms and methodology will also facilitate the development and release of large-scale text corpora in other disorders