Development and validation of algorithms to build an electronic health record based cohort of patients with systemic sclerosis.
Ann-Marcia C TukpahJonathan A RoseDiane L SegerPaul F DellaripaGary M HunninghakeDavid W BatesPublished in: PloS one (2023)
EHRs can be used to identify patients with SSc. Using unstructured text processing keyword searches for SSc clinical manifestations improved the PPV of ICD-10 codes alone and identified a group of patients most likely to have SSc and increased healthcare needs.