Common Data Elements for Acute Coronary Syndrome: Analysis Based on the Unified Medical Language System.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Standardization in clinical documentation can increase efficiency and can save time and resources.

Objective

The objectives of this work are to compare documentation forms for acute coronary syndrome (ACS), check for standardization, and generate a list of the most common data elements using semantic form annotation with the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS).

Methods

Forms from registries, studies, risk scores, quality assurance, official guidelines, and routine documentation from four hospitals in Germany were semantically annotated using UMLS. This allowed for automatic comparison of concept frequencies and the generation of a list of the most common concepts.

Results

A total of 3710 forms items from 86 sources were semantically annotated usin

SUBMITTER: Kentgen M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6729118 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature