Exploring the reliability of inpatient EMR algorithms for diabetes identification.
Seungwon LeeElliot A MartinJie PanCathy A EastwoodDanielle A SouthernDavid J T CampbellAbdel Aziz ShaheenHude QuanSonia ButaliaPublished in: BMJ health & care informatics (2023)
Free-text data-based diabetes algorithm can yield comparable or superior performance to a commonly used ICD-coded algorithm and could supplement existing methods. These types of inpatient EMR-based algorithms for case identification may become a key method for timely resource planning and care delivery.