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Area of Science:

  • Medical Informatics
  • Health Informatics
  • Natural Language Processing

Background:

  • Electronic medical records (EMRs) contain valuable diagnostic information, but often in uncoded free text.
  • Natural Language Processing (NLP) can code free-text diagnoses, but requires locally trained models.
  • Lack of standardized coding limits research and practice utility of EMR data.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Develop a framework of research-relevant diagnostic codes for Swiss primary care.
  • Test the framework's applicability on free-text diagnoses from a Swiss EMR database.
  • Generate training data for NLP models to automate disease classification.

Main Methods:

  • A diagnostic code framework was created with stakeholder input and epidemiological data.
  • Two raters independently coded 26,980 lines of free text (LoFT) from 3000 patients' EMRs.
  • Inter-rater reliability (IRR) was assessed using Cohen's kappa (Κ).

Main Results:

  • 56.3% of LoFT entries were not specific diagnoses.
  • Most frequent codes: 'dorsopathies' (3.9%) and 'other diseases of the circulatory system' (3.1%).
  • High agreement (Κ ≥ 0.81) for 69 codes; substantial agreement (0.61 ≤ Κ ≤ 0.80) for 28 codes.

Conclusions:

  • A subset of frequent and reliable diagnostic codes was identified.
  • These codes are valuable for training NLP models for automated classification of free-text diagnoses.
  • The framework supports improved data utilization in Swiss general practice.