A review of approaches to identifying patient phenotype cohorts using electronic health records.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To summarize literature describing approaches aimed at automatically identifying patients with a common phenotype.

Materials and methods

We performed a review of studies describing systems or reporting techniques developed for identifying cohorts of patients with specific phenotypes. Every full text article published in (1) Journal of American Medical Informatics Association, (2) Journal of Biomedical Informatics, (3) Proceedings of the Annual American Medical Informatics Association Symposium, and (4) Proceedings of Clinical Research Informatics Conference within the past 3 years was assessed for inclusion in the review. Only articles using automated techniques were included.

Results

Ninety-seven articles met our inclusion criteria. Forty-six used natural l

SUBMITTER: Shivade C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3932460 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar-Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature