Extraction of Vital Signs from Clinical Notes.
Assessment of vital signs is an essential part of surveillance of critically ill patients to detect condition changes and clinical deterioration. While most modern electronic medical records allow for vitals to be recorded in a structured format, the frequency and quality of what is electronically stored may differ from how often these measures are actually recorded. We created a tool that extracts blood pressure, heart rate, temperature, respiratory rate, blood oxygen saturation, and pain level from nursing and other clinical notes recorded in the course of inpatient care to supplement structured vital sign data.
VA Salt Lake City Health Care System.
Olga V
OV
Patterson
VA Salt Lake City Health Care System.
Makoto
M
Jones
VA Salt Lake City Health Care System.
Yiwen
Y
Yao
VA Salt Lake City Health Care System.
Benjamin
B
Viernes
VA Salt Lake City Health Care System.
Patrick R
PR
Alba
Center for Clinical Management Research, VA Ann Arbor Health Care System, Ann Arbor, MI.
Theodore J
TJ
Iwashyna
VA Salt Lake City Health Care System.
Scott L
SL
DuVall
D064229:Biological Ontologies; D057225:Data Mining / Q000379:methods*; D020000:Decision Support Systems, Clinical / Q000458:organization & administration; D057286:Electronic Health Records / Q000145:classification*; D006787:Hospitals, Veterans / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D000069550:Machine Learning; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D010808:Physical Examination / Q000145:classification*; D012660:Semantics; D012984:Software; D014481:United States; D055986:Vital Signs; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled