Automated Travel History Extraction From Clinical Notes for Informing the Detection of Emergent Infectious Disease Events: Algorithm Development and Validation

• Main Authors: Peterson, Kelly S (Author), Lewis, Julia (Author), Patterson, Olga V (Author), Chapman, Alec B (Author), Denhalter, Daniel W (Author), Lye, Patricia A (Author), Stevens, Vanessa W (Author), Gamage, Shantini D (Author), Roselle, Gary A (Author), Wallace, Katherine S (Author), Jones, Makoto (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: JMIR Publications, 2021-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BackgroundPatient travel history can be crucial in evaluating evolving infectious disease events. Such information can be challenging to acquire in electronic health records, as it is often available only in unstructured text. ObjectiveThis study aims to assess the feasibility of annotating and auto...