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Evaluation of Patient-Level Retrieval from Electronic Health Record Data for a Cohort Discovery Task

2019-08-25 health informatics Title + abstract only
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ObjectiveGrowing numbers of academic medical centers offer patient cohort discovery tools to their researchers, yet the performance of systems for this use case is not well-understood. The objective of this research was to assess patient-level information retrieval (IR) methods using electronic health records (EHR) for different types of cohort definition retrieval. Materials and MethodsWe developed a test collection consisting of about 100,000 patient records and 56 test topics that characteri...

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