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Tables for Allergy NLP Matching

The system was developed and tested using a perioperative management system using a training set of 24,599 entries and a test set of 24,857 entries from Vanderbilt University.  Our goal was to develop a high performance, easily-maintained algorithm to identify medication and food allergies and sensitivities from unstructured allergy entries in electronic medical record (EHR) systems.