Autor: |
Frances B Maguire, Cyllene R Morris, Arti Parikh-Patel, Rosemary D Cress, Theresa H M Keegan, Chin-Shang Li, Patrick S Lin, Kenneth W Kizer |
Jazyk: |
angličtina |
Rok vydání: |
2019 |
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Zdroj: |
PLoS ONE, Vol 14, Iss 2, p e0212454 (2019) |
Druh dokumentu: |
article |
ISSN: |
1932-6203 |
DOI: |
10.1371/journal.pone.0212454 |
Popis: |
BackgroundPopulation-based cancer registries have treatment information for all patients making them an excellent resource for population-level monitoring. However, specific treatment details, such as drug names, are contained in a free-text format that is difficult to process and summarize. We assessed the accuracy and efficiency of a text-mining algorithm to identify systemic treatments for lung cancer from free-text fields in the California Cancer Registry.MethodsThe algorithm used Perl regular expressions in SAS 9.4 to search for treatments in 24,845 free-text records associated with 17,310 patients in California diagnosed with stage IV non-small cell lung cancer between 2012 and 2014. Our algorithm categorized treatments into six groups that align with National Comprehensive Cancer Network guidelines. We compared results to a manual review (gold standard) of the same records.ResultsPercent agreement ranged from 91.1% to 99.4%. Ranges for other measures were 0.71-0.92 (Kappa), 74.3%-97.3% (sensitivity), 92.4%-99.8% (specificity), 60.4%-96.4% (positive predictive value), and 92.9%-99.9% (negative predictive value). The text-mining algorithm used one-sixth of the time required for manual review.ConclusionSAS-based text mining of free-text data can accurately detect systemic treatments administered to patients and save considerable time compared to manual review, maximizing the utility of the extant information in population-based cancer registries for comparative effectiveness research. |
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