Using natural language processing for identification of pneumonia cases from clinical records of patients with serologically proven influenza.

Dietlind L. Wahner-Roedler, Gail A. Welsh, Brett E. Trusko, David A. Froehling, Zelalem Temesgen, Peter L. Elkin

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Abstract

The purpose of this study was to determine whether influenza vaccination protects against pneumonia in patients who develop influenza. By parsing a data set of records of 1455 patients with serologically proven influenza using SNOMED CT we found that of the vaccinated patients 19.3% developed pneumonia and of the unvaccinated 20.7%. These data suggest that influenza vaccine does not prevent pneumonias in patients who develop influenza despite immunization with influenza vaccine.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1165
Number of pages1
JournalAMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings / AMIA Symposium. AMIA Symposium
StatePublished - 2008

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Medicine

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