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Automated influenza case detection for public health surveillance and clinical diagnosis using dynamic influenza prevalence method.

ABSTRACT: Objectives:To assess the performance of a Bayesian case detector (BCD) for influenza surveillance and clinical diagnosis. Methods:BCD uses a Bayesian network classifier to compute the posterior probability of a patient having influenza based on 31 findings from narrative clinical notes. To assess the potential for disease surveillance, we calculated area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) to indicate BCD's ability to differentiate between influenza and non-influenza encounters in emergency department settings. To assess the potential for clinical diagnosis, we measured AUC for diagnosing influenza cases among encounters having influenza-like illnesses. We also evaluated the performance of BCD using dynamically estimated influenza prevalence, and measured sensitivity, specificity and positive predictive value. Results:For influenza surveillance, BCD differentiated between influenza and non-influenza encounters well with an AUC of 0.90 and 0.97 with dynamic influenza prevalence (P < 0.0001). For clinical diagnosis, the addition of dynamic influenza prevalence to BCD significantly improved AUC from 0.63 to 0.85 to distinguish influenza from other causes of influenza-like illness. Conclusions and policy implications:BCD can serve as an influenza surveillance and a differential diagnosis tool via our dynamic prevalence approach. It enhances the communication between public health and clinical practice.

SUBMITTER: Tsui F

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6676953 | biostudies-literature |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Project description:OBJECTIVES:This study evaluates the accuracy and portability of a natural language processing (NLP) tool for extracting clinical findings of influenza from clinical notes across two large healthcare systems. Effectiveness is evaluated on how well NLP supports downstream influenza case-detection for disease surveillance. METHODS:We independently developed two NLP parsers, one at Intermountain Healthcare (IH) in Utah and the other at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) using local clinical notes from emergency department (ED) encounters of influenza. We measured NLP parser performance for the presence and absence of 70 clinical findings indicative of influenza. We then developed Bayesian network models from NLP processed reports and tested their ability to discriminate among cases of (1) influenza, (2) non-influenza influenza-like illness (NI-ILI), and (3) 'other' diagnosis. RESULTS:On Intermountain Healthcare reports, recall and precision of the IH NLP parser were 0.71 and 0.75, respectively, and UPMC NLP parser, 0.67 and 0.79. On University of Pittsburgh Medical Center reports, recall and precision of the UPMC NLP parser were 0.73 and 0.80, respectively, and IH NLP parser, 0.53 and 0.80. Bayesian case-detection performance measured by AUROC for influenza versus non-influenza on Intermountain Healthcare cases was 0.93 (using IH NLP parser) and 0.93 (using UPMC NLP parser). Case-detection on University of Pittsburgh Medical Center cases was 0.95 (using UPMC NLP parser) and 0.83 (using IH NLP parser). For influenza versus NI-ILI on Intermountain Healthcare cases performance was 0.70 (using IH NLP parser) and 0.76 (using UPMC NLP parser). On University of Pisstburgh Medical Center cases, 0.76 (using UPMC NLP parser) and 0.65 (using IH NLP parser). CONCLUSION:In all but one instance (influenza versus NI-ILI using IH cases), local parsers were more effective at supporting case-detection although performances of non-local parsers were reasonable.

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