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docs/examples/acd/adverse_event.md

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

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