Application to identify instances of treatment-resistant depression.
Development approach: Machine-learning.
Classification of past or present symptom: Both.
Classes produced: Positive
The output includes- Positive mentions:
“X year history of treatment resistant depression”,
“problems with low mood (resistant depression)”,
“diagnosis: treatment resistant depression”,
“resistant endogenous depression, suffers from chronic treatment resistant depression”,
“referred for management of treatment resistant recurrent depression”
Exclude Unknown mentions:
“talked about ways in which they might resist allowing each other’s depression to …”,
“has a diagnosis of treatment resistant schizophrenia and depression”,
“we discussed him enrolling for a study of treatment resistant depression”,
“we talked about medication for treatment resistant depression”,
“resisted antidepressant therapy for a number of years”,
“needs an assessment to rule out treatment resistant depression”,
“assess whether depression was resistant to mirtazapine”,
“accepts that ECT is a strategy for treatment resistant depression”
Definitions: Search term(s): depression [0-8 words in between] resist resist [0-8 words in between] depression
