Abstract
Severe sepsis and septic shock are conditions that affect millions of patients and have close to 50% mortality rate. Early identification of at-risk patients significantly improves outcomes. Electronic surveillance tools have been developed to monitor structured Electronic Medical Records and automatically recognize early signs of sepsis. However, many sepsis risk factors (e.g. symptoms and signs of infection) are often captured only in free text clinical notes. In this study, we developed a method for automatic monitoring of nursing notes for signs and symptoms of infection. We utilized a creative approach to automatically generate an annotated dataset. The dataset was used to create a Machine Learning model that achieved an F1-score ranging from 79 to 96%.- Anthology ID:
- W17-2332
- Volume:
- BioNLP 2017
- Month:
- August
- Year:
- 2017
- Address:
- Vancouver, Canada,
- Editors:
- Kevin Bretonnel Cohen, Dina Demner-Fushman, Sophia Ananiadou, Junichi Tsujii
- Venue:
- BioNLP
- SIG:
- SIGBIOMED
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 257–262
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/W17-2332
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/W17-2332
- Cite (ACL):
- Emilia Apostolova and Tom Velez. 2017. Toward Automated Early Sepsis Alerting: Identifying Infection Patients from Nursing Notes. In BioNLP 2017, pages 257–262, Vancouver, Canada,. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Toward Automated Early Sepsis Alerting: Identifying Infection Patients from Nursing Notes (Apostolova & Velez, BioNLP 2017)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/teach-a-man-to-fish/W17-2332.pdf
- Code
- ema-/antibiotic-dictionary
- Data
- MIMIC-III