Automatic identification of methotrexate-induced liver toxicity in patients with rheumatoid arthritis from the electronic medical record.

Lin C, Karlson EW, Dligach D, Ramirez MP, Miller TA, Mo H, Braggs NS, Cagan A, Gainer V, Denny JC, Savova GK. Automatic identification of methotrexate-induced liver toxicity in patients with rheumatoid arthritis from the electronic medical record. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA. 2014 Oct 25. PMID: 25344930 [PubMed]

Abstract

To improve the accuracy of mining structured and unstructured components of the electronic medical record (EMR) by adding temporal features to automatically identify patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) with methotrexate-induced liver transaminase abnormalities.