Identifying Cases of Shoulder Injury Related to Vaccine Administration (SIRVA) in the United States: Development and Validation of a Natural Language Processing Method.
Chengyi ZhengJonathan DuffyIn-Lu Amy LiuLina S SyRonald A NavarroSunhea S KimDenison S RyanWansu ChenLei QianCheryl MercadoSteven J JacobsenPublished in: JMIR public health and surveillance (2022)
The algorithm performed with high sensitivity and reasonable specificity in identifying positive SIRVA cases. The NLP algorithm can potentially be used in future population-based studies to identify this rare adverse event, avoiding labor-intensive chart review validation.