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A Pilot Report on Extracting Symptom Onset Date and Time from Clinical Notes in Patients Presenting with Chest Pain

George, A.; Maisa, A.; Dreisbach, C.; Suba, S.

2024-12-31 health informatics
10.1101/2024.12.26.24319658 medRxiv
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Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is an acute heart disease that often evolves rapidly. In ACS patients presenting with no-ST-segment elevation (NSTE-ACS), the timing of symptom onset pre-hospital may inform the disease stage and prognosis. We pilot-tested two off-the-shelf natural language processing (NLP) pipelines, namely parsedatetime and regular expression (regex), to extract date and time (DateTime) information of patient-reported chest pain symptoms from electronic health records (EHR) clinical notes. We included three types of clinical notes (N=71): History and Physical (n=49), Emergency Department Screening (n=3), and Triage Notes (n=19). All notes were manually annotated for the true DateTime of symptom onset. Parsedatetime returned matching DateTime outputs in 36 notes (50.7%), while regex returned zero matched outputs. Parsedatetime performed better than regex, although it was still suboptimal. Both pipelines require constant refinement and custom improvements. Methods for a large-scale, automated DateTime extraction from EHR clinical notes further investigation.

Published in CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing · not in our set (fewer than 10 published preprints to learn from) · training set

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