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  • 1VA Salt Lake City Health Care System; Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah.

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This study developed a machine-learning tool to automatically extract exercise capacity (Metabolic Equivalents or METs) from clinical notes. This method efficiently retrieves crucial patient data for cardiovascular research and clinical care.

Area of Science:

  • Cardiology
  • Medical Informatics
  • Machine Learning

Background:

  • Functional status, measured by exercise capacity, is vital for cardiovascular disease patient care.
  • Exercise capacity is often quantified using Metabolic Equivalents (METs).
  • METs values are frequently embedded within unstructured clinical notes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and evaluate an automated method for extracting METs values from diverse clinical notes.
  • To adapt a machine-learning algorithm (REDEx) for generating regular expressions to identify METs data.

Main Methods:

  • A machine-learning algorithm, REDEx, was adapted to automatically generate regular expressions.
  • The algorithm was trained and tested on 2701 manually annotated text snippets.

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  • Performance was evaluated using accuracy and F-measure metrics.

    • Main Results:

    • The generated regular expressions achieved high performance in METs extraction.
    • Accuracy and F-measure scores were reported as 0.89 and 0.86, respectively.
    • The tool demonstrated effectiveness in identifying METs from clinical text.

    Conclusions:

    • The developed extraction tool can efficiently process large volumes of clinical notes.
    • This facilitates the retrieval of METs values for millions of cardiovascular patients.
    • The extracted data will support clinical research and patient care improvements.