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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL INFORMATICS ASSOCIATION
卷 12, 期 1, 页码 55-63出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M1623
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- NLM NIH HHS [R01 LM07268, R01 LM06910, R01 LM07659] Funding Source: Medline
- NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE [R01LM007268, R01LM007659, R01LM006910] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
Objective: To model the temporal information contained in medical narrative reports as a simple temporal constraint satisfaction problem. Design: A constraint satisfaction problem is defined by time points and constraints (inequalities between points). A time interval comprises a pair of points and a constraint. Five complete electronic discharge summaries and paragraphs from 226 other discharge summaries were studied. Medical events were represented as intervals, and assertions about events were represented as constraints. Through a consensus process, a set of encoding procedures and a list of issues related to encoding were generated. Measurements: Instances of temporal disjunction and contradiction and distribution of temporal constraints were used. Results: An average of 95 medical events (range, 46-151) and 234 temporal assertions (range, 118-388) were identified per complete discharge summary. Nondefinitional assertions were explicit (36%) or implicit (64%) and absolute (17%), qualitative (72%), or metric (11%). Implicit assertions were based on domain knowledge and assumptions, e.g., the section of the report determined the ordering of events. Issues included linking events, intermittence, periodicity, granularity, vagueness, ambiguity, uncertainty, and plans. Abstractions such as intermittence were not represented explicitly. The temporal network was sparse: Only 0.80% (range, 0.42%-1.38%) of possible constraints were instantiated. No instances of discontinuous temporal disjunction were found in the complete summaries or the 226 paragraphs. One instance of temporal contradiction was found (intrareport rate of 0.2 with a 95% confidence interval of 0.005-1.114). Conclusion: A simple temporal constraint satisfaction problem appears sufficient to represent most temporal assertions in discharge summaries and may be useful for encoding electronic medical records.
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