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Data Mining Approach to Identify Disease Cohorts from Primary Care Electronic Medical Records: A Case of Diabetes Mellitus
Ebenezer S. Owusu Adjah, Olga Montvida, Julius Agbeve, Sanjoy K. Paul
Background:
Identification of diseased patients from primary care based electronic medical records (EMRs) has methodological challenges that may impact epidemiologic inferences.
Objective:
To compare deterministic clinically guided selection algorithms with probabilistic machine learning (ML) methodologies for their ability to identify patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) from large population based EMRs from nationally representative primary care database.
Methods:
Four cohorts of patients with T2DM were defined by deterministic approach based on disease codes. The database was mined for a set of best predictors of T2DM and the performance of six ML algorithms were compared based on cross-validated true positive rate, true negative rate, and area under receiver operating characteristic curve.
Results:
In the database of 11,018,025 research suitable individuals, 379 657 (3.4%) were coded to have T2DM. Logistic Regression classifier was selected as best ML algorithm and resulted in a cohort of 383,330 patients with potential T2DM. Eighty-three percent (83%) of this cohort had a T2DM code, and 16% of the patients with T2DM code were not included in this ML cohort. Of those in the ML cohort without disease code, 52% had at least one measure of elevated glucose level and 22% had received at least one prescription for antidiabetic medication.
Conclusion:
Deterministic cohort selection based on disease coding potentially introduces significant mis-classification problem. ML techniques allow testing for potential disease predictors, and under meaningful data input, are able to identify diseased cohorts in a holistic way.
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