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SUBMITTER: Harrington KM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6699164 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Harrington Kelly M KM Quaden Rachel R Stein Murray B MB Honerlaw Jacqueline P JP Cissell Shadha S Pietrzak Robert H RH Zhao Hongyu H Radhakrishnan Krishnan K Aslan Mihaela M Gaziano John Michael JM Concato John J Gagnon David R DR Gelernter Joel J Cho Kelly K
Journal of traumatic stress 20190401 2
We developed an algorithm for identifying U.S. veterans with a history of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), using the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) electronic medical record (EMR) system. This work was motivated by the need to create a valid EMR-based phenotype to identify thousands of cases and controls for a genome-wide association study of PTSD in veterans. We used manual chart review (n = 500) as the gold standard. For both the algorithm and chart review, three classifications were ...[more]