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Area of Science:

  • Medical Informatics
  • Epidemiology
  • Health Data Science

Background:

  • Current International Classification of Disease (ICD) coding for pneumonia lacks specificity for epidemiological studies.
  • Pneumonia subtyping by setting, exposure, and emergence is hindered by reliance on unstructured EHR data.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Develop a rule-based algorithm for pneumonia subtyping using EHR data.
  • Improve pneumonia classification for epidemiological and clinical research.

Main Methods:

  • Interrogated EHR data from a large health system.
  • Developed a rule-based algorithm using ICD codes, radiology reports, and antibiotic prescriptions.
  • Validated pneumonia classification using natural language processing (NLP).

Main Results:

  • Analyzed 83,387 pneumonia episodes.
  • Identified subtypes: community-acquired (54.5%), hospital-acquired (20%), aspiration (10.7%), healthcare-associated (5%), and ventilator-associated (0.4%).
  • 9.4% of cases were not classifiable by the algorithm.

Conclusions:

  • Electronic classification of pneumonia subtypes is feasible using EHR data.
  • The developed algorithm shows potential for improving pneumonia subtyping in healthcare systems.
  • Further validation of algorithm portability across different health systems is needed.