Trends of pulmonary fungal infections from 2013 to 2019: an AI-based real-world observational study in Guangzhou, China.

ABSTRACT: Recently, the prevalence trend of pulmonary fungal infection (PFI) has rapidly increased. Changes in the risk factors for, distributions of underlying diseases associated with and clinical characteristics of some individual PFIs have been reported in the past decade. However, data regarding PFIs remain uncertain. This study reports the epidemiological characteristics and trends of PFIs over time in recent years. We applied an automated natural language processing (NLP) system to extract clinically relevant information from the electronic health records (EHRs) of PFI patients at the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University. Then, a trend analysis was performed. From January 1, 2013, to December 31, 2019, 40,504 inpatients and 219,414 outpatients with respiratory diseases we

SUBMITTER: Li Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7971272 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature