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ArticleJournal of biomedical semantics2019

Development of a cardiac-centered frailty ontology.

Kristina Doing-Harris, Bruce E Bray, Anne Thackeray, Rashmee U Shah, Yijun Shao, Yan Cheng, Qing Zeng-Treitler, Jennifer H Garvin, Charlene Weir

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Article in Journal of biomedical semantics, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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9 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Kristina Doing-HarrisNuance Communications, Burlington, MA, USA. kdoingharris@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0002-9704-8523
Bruce E BrayDivision of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
Anne ThackerayPhysical Therapy and Athletic Training Department, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
Rashmee U ShahDivision of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
Yijun ShaoMedical Informatics Center, George Washington University, Washington DC, USA.
Yan ChengMedical Informatics Center, George Washington University, Washington DC, USA.
Qing Zeng-TreitlerMedical Informatics Center, George Washington University, Washington DC, USA.
Jennifer H GarvinDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
Charlene WeirDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
University of Utah · USGeorge Washington University · USNuance Communications (United States) · US

Funding

Utah Center for Clinical and Translational ScienceUL1TR002538 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI HESS, RACHEL, MAJERSIK, JENNIFER JUHL · 2018 to 2022
$26.0M
Improving Cardiovascular Drug Safety With Automated Bleeding ClassificationK08HL136850 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI SHAH, RASHMEE U. · 2017 to 2020
$652k
Use Frailty Status to Predict Postoperative Outcomes in Elderly PatientR56AG052536 · NIA · GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI BRAY, BRUCE EARL, ZENG, QING · 2016 to 2016
$616k
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR002538NHLBI NIH HHS K08 HL136850NIA NIH HHS R56 AG052536
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundA Cardiac-centered Frailty Ontology can be an important foundation for using NLP to assess patient frailty. Frailty is an important consideration when making patient treatment decisions, particularly in older adults, those with a cardiac diagnosis, or when major surgery is a consideration. Clinicians often report patient's frailty in progress notes and other documentation. Frailty is recorded in many different ways in patient records and many different validated frailty-measuring instruments are available, with little consistency across instruments. We specifically explored concepts relevant to decisions regarding cardiac interventions. We based our work on text found in a large corpus of clinical notes from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) national Electronic Health Record (EHR) database.

resultsThe full ontology has 156 concepts, with 246 terms. It includes 86 concepts we expect to find in clinical documents, with 12 qualifier values. The remaining 58 concepts represent hierarchical groups (e.g., physical function findings). Our top-level class is clinical finding, which has children clinical history finding, instrument finding, and physical examination finding, reflecting the OGMS definition of clinical finding. Instrument finding is any score found for the existing frailty instruments. Within our ontology, we used SNOMED-CT concepts where possible. Some of the 86 concepts we expect to find in clinical documents are associated with the properties like ability interpretation. The concept ability to walk can either be able, assisted or unable. Each concept-property level pairing gets a different frailty score. Each scored concept received three scores: a frailty score, a relevance to cardiac decisions score, and a likelihood of resolving after the recommended intervention score. The ontology includes the relationship between scores from ten frailty instruments and frailty as assessed using ontology concepts. It also included rules for mapping ontology elements to instrument items for three common frailty assessment instruments. Ontology elements are used in two clinical NLP systems.

conclusionsWe developed and validated a Cardiac-centered Frailty Ontology, which is a machine-interoperable description of frailty that reflects all the areas that clinicians consider when deciding which cardiac intervention will best serve the patient as well as frailty indications generally relevant to medical decisions. The ontology owl file is available on Bioportal at http://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/CCFO .

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Biological OntologiesCardiac Surgical ProceduresNatural Language ProcessingClinical Decision-MakingElectronic Health RecordsFrailtyHumansCardiologyFrailtyOntologySNOMED-CTSurgery

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