• AMIA Annu Symp Proc · Jan 2007

    Extraction and mapping of drug names from free text to a standardized nomenclature.

    • Matthew A Levin, Marina Krol, Ankur M Doshi, and David L Reich.
    • Department of Anesthesiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
    • AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2007 Jan 1: 438-42.

    AbstractFree text fields are often used to store clinical drug data in electronic health records. The use of free text facilitates rapid data entry by the clinician. Errors in spelling, abbreviations, and jargon, however, limit the utility of these data. We designed and implemented an algorithm, using open source tools and RxNorm, to extract and normalize drug data stored in free text fields of an anesthesia electronic health record. The algorithm was developed using a training set containing drug data from 49,518 cases, and validated using a validation set containing data from 14,655 cases. Overall sensitivity and specificity for the validation set were 92.2% and 95.7% respectively. The mains sources of error were misspellings and unknown but valid drug names. These preliminary results demonstrate that free text clinical drug data can be efficiently extracted and mapped to a controlled drug nomenclature.

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