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Development and Evaluation of a Computable Phenotype for Normal Tension Glaucoma.

Fountane Chan, Wei-Chun Lin, Alan Tang, Benjamin Y Xu, Sophia Y Wang, Michael V Boland, Catherine Q Sun, Sally Baxter, Brian Stagg, Michelle Hribar and 1 more

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Fountane ChanCasey Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon.
Wei-Chun LinCasey Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon.
Alan TangRoski Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.
Benjamin Y XuRoski Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.
Sophia Y WangByers Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California.
Michael V BolandDepartment of Ophthalmology, Mass Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Catherine Q SunDepartment of Ophthalmology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
Sally BaxterFrom the Viterbi Family Department of Ophthalmology, Division of Ophthalmology Informatics and Data Science, Hamilton Glaucoma Center, Shiley Eye Institute, University of California, San Diego, California.
Brian StaggMoran Eye Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake, Utah.
Michelle HribarCasey Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon.
Aiyin ChenCasey Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon.

Funding

San Diego Biomedical Informatics Education & Research (SABER)T15LM011271 · NLM · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI SHAMIM NEMATI · 2012 to 2026
$9.7M
Mentored Vision Clinician-Scientist Program at OHSUK12EY027720 · NEI · OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY · PI David Huang · 2018 to 2026
$2.2M
Operationalizing Machine Learning and Discrete Event Simulation Models to Improve Clinic EfficiencyR01LM013426 · NLM · OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY · PI HRIBAR, MICHELLE · 2020 to 2023
$1.3M
NEI NIH HHS K12 EY027720NLM NIH HHS R01 LM013426NLM NIH HHS T15 LM011271
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Abstract

Purpose: To develop a computable phenotype for normal tension glaucoma (NTG) to enhance disease identification from electronic health records (EHRs). Design: Retrospective cohort study. Subjects: Deidentified EHR data from an academic medical center identified 1851 patients aged ≥40 years, with glaucoma and available clinical notes. Methods: Of these 1851 patients, 200 were randomly selected for a chart review to receive gold standard diagnoses. Four rule-based NTG computable phenotypes were developed and tested. Phenotype 1 relied on NTG International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-9 and ICD-10 codes. Phenotype 2 incorporated structured intraocular pressure (IOP) data and medication lists. Phenotype 3 used only structured IOP data. Phenotype 4 combined structured IOP and medication data natural language processing (NLP) to extract IOP values and NTG mentions from chart notes. Internal and external validation were performed. Main Outcome Measures: F1 score, sensitivities, specificities, positive predictive value (PPV), negative predictive value (NPV), and accuracy. Results: Chart review identified NTG in 30% of patients, and only 7% had NTG ICD codes. Phenotype 1 had an F1 of 36.8%, sensitivity 24.1%, specificity 97%, PPV 77.8%, NPV 74.9%, and accuracy 75.1%. Compared with ICD codes, phenotypes 2 and 3 had F1 of 66.7% and 69.8%, sensitivity 77.6% and 89.7%, specificity 76.3% and 71.1%, PPV 58.4% and 57.1%, NPV 88.8% and 94.1%, and accuracy of 76.7% and 76.7%, respectively. Incorporating NLP, phenotype 4 had the best performance with an F1 of 77.4%, sensitivity 82.8%, specificity 86.7%, PPV 72.7%, NPV 92.1%, and accuracy 85.5%. Phenotypes 2 to 4 increase NTG case detection fourfold compared with phenotype 1. Conclusions: Normal tension glaucoma phenotypes using NLP achieved the best overall performance, and those incorporating structured data perform better than ICD codes alone. The NTG ICD code-based phenotype is highly specific but lacks sensitivity. Insights from this study may inform the development of computable phenotypes for other disease subtypes within broader disease categories. Financial Disclosures: Proprietary or commercial disclosure may be found in the Footnotes and Disclosures at the end of this article.

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Computable phenotypeEHRNatural language processingNormal tension glaucomaNTG

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PMCPMC12301754

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