Clinical Ontologies Improve Case Finding of Primary Biliary Cholangitis in UK Primary and Secondary Care.

Marinos PericleousClaire KellyJoseph A OdinYiannis KallisChris McGeeJulian SherlockIvelina YonovaSimon de LusignanAftab Ala

Published in: Digestive diseases and sciences (2020)

Utilization of the UK National RCGP RSC database supported by novel ontology score has successfully helped us identify (i) new cases of PBC not known to local/regional secondary care providers and (ii) de novo PBC cases. There are many PBC probable cases whose data merit further careful evaluation.

Keyphrases

quality improvement
healthcare
palliative care
cross sectional
pain management
electronic health record
affordable care act
emergency department
machine learning
adverse drug