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Agitation
Description
Application to identify instances of agitation.
Development approach: Machine-learning. Classification of past or present symptom: Both. Classes produced: Positive
The output includes- Positive mentions include:
“Very agitated at present, he was agitated”, “He was initially calm but then became agitated and started staring and pointing at me towards”, “Should also include no longer agitated. “
Excludes negative and irrelevant mentions, e.g.:
“He did not seem distracted or agitated”, “Not agitated”, “No evidence of agitation”. “a common symptom of psychomotor agitation” Definitions: Search term(case insensitive): agitat
Results/Insights
Cohen's k = 85% (50 un-annotated documents - 25 events/25 attachments, search term ‘agitat*’). Instance level (testing done on 100 random documents): Precision (specificity / accuracy) = 85%
Recall (sensitivity / coverage) = 79% Patient level: All patients with primary diagnosis code F32 or F33 (testing done on 30 random document, one document per patient) Precision (specificity / accuracy) = 82%
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