Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, 622 W. 168th Street, New York, NY, USA.
Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, 622 W. 168th Street, New York, NY, USA.
J Biomed Inform. 2018 Sep;85:21-29. doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2018.07.019. Epub 2018 Jul 20.
Most laboratory results are valid for only a certain time period (laboratory tests shelf-life), after which they are outdated and the test needs to be re-administered. Currently, laboratory test shelf-lives are not centrally available anywhere but the implicit knowledge of doctors. In this work we propose an automated method to learn laboratory test-specific shelf-life by identifying prevalent laboratory test order patterns in electronic health records. The resulting shelf-lives performed well in the evaluation of internal validity, clinical interpretability, and external validity.
大多数实验室结果的有效期仅为一段时间(实验室测试保质期),之后结果就会过期,需要重新进行测试。目前,实验室测试保质期并没有集中在任何地方,而只是医生的隐性知识。在这项工作中,我们通过识别电子健康记录中常见的实验室测试订单模式,提出了一种自动学习实验室测试特定保质期的方法。所得到的保质期在内部有效性、临床可解释性和外部有效性的评估中表现良好。