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99> :construction : Adverse events are characterized by the need to capture cause and effect, in addition to actuality,
1010> severity and outcome. The nlp-insights service currently limits discovery to the detection of medication related
11- > adverse events. There is no support for creating relationships with other resources to model characteristics of the event.
12- > While detection is a significant step forward, further contributions to this feature will be needed as more
11+ > adverse events. There is no support for creating cause/effect/outcome relationships with
12+ > other resources that represent characteristics of the event. Standard codes such as SNOMED CT and MedDRA are NOT included
13+ > in the created AdverseEvent FHIR resource.
14+ > While detection is a significant step forward, further contributions to this feature will be needed when more
1315> ACD support becomes available. :construction :
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1517The capabilities of the nlp-insights service are best explained using an example.
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2123## Derive insights from a diagnostic report that describes an adverse event
22- Adverse Events are very challenging for NLP to detect.
23- In this example, there is no single phrase that indicates an Adverse Event happened.
24+ Adverse Events are very challenging for NLP to recognize because they involve multiple concepts, temporal relationships and causality.
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26+ This example is typical; There is no single concept or span of text that indicates an Adverse Event happened.
2427
2528```
2629B64_REPORT_TEXT=$(echo "\
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408411which was almost perscribed for his trigeminal neuralgia and chronic pain.
409412```
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411- ACD would return confidences with a high value for "considering" usage score:
414+ ACD would return confidences with a high value for the "considering" usage score:
412415``` json
413416 "adverseEvent" : {
414417 "score" : 0.999 ,
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424427This could be leveraged by nlp-insights to determine that the event did not actually happen.
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426429In building the reference implementation, we did not have sufficient examples to determine
427- if this approach would work well enough to be of value in practice.
430+ if this approach would work well enough to be of value in practice, or what value of
431+ the consideringScore should be used as the decision boundary.
428432Another consideration was that additional functionality might someday be added to ACD that solves this problem in a better way.
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430- The determination of actuality is therefore still an area of research and construction.
434+ : construction : The determination of actuality is therefore still an area of research and further contribution. : construction :
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432436## Evidence
433437The available evidence is consistent with [ other derived resource types] ( ./derive_new_resources.md ) .
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