Northwestern University The Feinberg School of Medicine

Diverticulosis and Diverticulitis

An algorithm for finding patients with diverticulosis, and of those, patients who also have diverticulitis, and to also find control patients.  Control patients will have had a colonoscopy but have no evidence of diverticula.

Simple NLP (a portable program is posted here, with instructions, and support is availabe from NU as needed) of colonoscopy reports is the gold standard algorithm, but if the text of colonoscopy reports is not available, an alternate algorithm using CPT & ICD-9 codes can be used, which is also posted.

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