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While the FHIR standard distinguishes between potential (or near-miss) adverse events and actual events, the nlp-insights service creates
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adverse event resources as actual, and does not distinguish between actual and potential events.
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ACD does provide some possibilities for improvement. For example, suppose the text passage was something similar to:
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It is possible that the problem could be solved (in some cases) with a code change to nlp-insights.
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For example, suppose the text passage was something similar to:
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The patient's course could have been complicated by mental status \
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changes secondary to a combination of narcotics and Neurontin, \
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This could be leveraged by nlp-insights to determine that the event did not actually happen.
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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 in practice.
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In addition, ACD may or may not add additional functionality to solve this problem in the future.
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if this approach would work well enough to be of value in practice.
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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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