Innovative Informatics Approaches for Peripheral Artery Disease: Current State and Provider Survey of Strategies for Improving Guideline-Based Care.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To quantify compliance with guideline recommendations for secondary prevention in peripheral artery disease (PAD) using natural language processing (NLP) tools deployed to an electronic health record (EHR) and investigate provider opinions regarding clinical decision support (CDS) to promote improved implementation of these strategies.

Patients and methods

Natural language processing was used for automated identification of moderate to severe PAD cases from narrative clinical notes of an EHR of patients seen in consultation from May 13, 2015, to July 27, 2015. Guideline-recommended strategies assessed within 6 months of PAD diagnosis included therapy with statins, antiplatelet agents, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors or angiotensin receptor blockers, and sm

SUBMITTER: Chaudhry AP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6051413 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature