Validation of an algorithm to evaluate the appropriateness of outpatient antibiotic prescribing using big data of Chinese diagnosis text

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OBJECTIVE: We aimed to evaluate the validity of an algorithm to classify diagnoses according to the appropriateness of outpatient antibiotic use in the context of Chinese free text.

SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: A random sample of 10 000 outpatient visits was selected between January and April 2018 from a national database for monitoring rational use of drugs, which included data from 194 secondary and tertiary hospitals in China.

RESEARCH DESIGN: Diagnoses for outpatient visits were classified as tier 1 if associated with at least one condition that 'always' justified antibiotic use; as tier 2 if associated with at least one condition that only 'sometimes' justified antibiotic use but no conditions that 'always' justified antibiotic use; or as tier 3 if associated with only conditions that never justified antibiotic use, using a tier-fashion method and regular expression (RE)-based algorithm.

MEASURES: Sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV) and negative predictive value (NPV) of the classification algorithm, using classification made by chart review as the standard reference, were calculated.

RESULTS: The sensitivities of the algorithm for classifying tier 1, tier 2 and tier 3 diagnoses were 98.2% (95% CI 96.4% to 99.3%), 98.4% (95% CI 97.6% to 99.1%) and 100.0% (95% CI 100.0% to 100.0%), respectively. The specificities were 100.0% (95% CI 100.0% to 100.0%), 100.0% (95% CI 99.9% to 100.0%) and 98.6% (95% CI 97.9% to 99.1%), respectively. The PPVs for classifying tier 1, tier 2 and tier 3 diagnoses were 100.0% (95% CI 99.1% to 100.0%), 99.7% (95% CI 99.2% to 99.9%) and 99.7% (95% CI 99.6% to 99.8%), respectively. The NPVs were 99.9% (95% CI 99.8% to 100.0%), 99.8% (95% CI 99.7% to 99.9%) and 100.0% (95% CI 99.8% to 100.0%), respectively.

CONCLUSIONS: The RE-based classification algorithm in the context of Chinese free text had sufficiently high validity for further evaluating the appropriateness of outpatient antibiotic prescribing.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:10

Enthalten in:

BMJ open - 10(2020), 3 vom: 19. März, Seite e031191

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Zhao, Houyu [VerfasserIn]
Bian, Jiaming [VerfasserIn]
Wei, Li [VerfasserIn]
Li, Liuyi [VerfasserIn]
Ying, Yingqiu [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Zeyu [VerfasserIn]
Yao, Xiaoying [VerfasserIn]
Zhuo, Lin [VerfasserIn]
Cao, Bin [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Mei [VerfasserIn]
Zhan, Siyan [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Anti-Bacterial Agents
Antibiotics
Drug utilisation
Electronic health records
Journal Article
Prescriptions
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Validation
Validation Study

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Date Completed 13.04.2021

Date Revised 13.04.2021

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1136/bmjopen-2019-031191

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM307846342