Design patterns for the development of electronic health record-driven phenotype extraction algorithms.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Design patterns, in the context of software development and ontologies, provide generalized approaches and guidance to solving commonly occurring problems, or addressing common situations typically informed by intuition, heuristics and experience. While the biomedical literature contains broad coverage of specific phenotype algorithm implementations, no work to date has attempted to generalize common approaches into design patterns, which may then be distributed to the informatics community to efficiently develop more accurate phenotype algorithms.

Methods

Using phenotyping algorithms stored in the Phenotype KnowledgeBase (PheKB), we conducted an independent iterative review to identify recurrent elements within the algorithm definitions. We extracted and generali

SUBMITTER: Rasmussen LV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4194216 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature