Depression accounts for substantial morbidity and mortality worldwide and risk of experiencing it may have a genetic component. Depressive disorders manifest along a gradient from mild to severe.[1] Electronic health record (EHR) data linked to large, multi-site biobanks[2] facilitate exploration of the genetic component of depression.
Algorithm to identify patients with diabetic retinopathy.
Described in this document are the Stanford University algorithms for extracting both cases and controls of digital rectal examination (DRE) from electronic health records (EHR) of prostate cancer patients. DRE is a clinical procedure, part of a set of quality metrics used to determine quality care for these patients. In this regard, DRE is defined as quality care when it is performed within a time period of up to six months before first treatment for prostate cancer. For the purposes of this algorithm a case is defined as DRE documented, whereas a control is DRE not documented.
This algorithm builds off prior phenotyping work from Pacheco & Thompson available in the PheKB phenotype "Diverticulosis and Diverticulitis" as well as the manuscripts from Joo et al (2023)(1) and De Roo et al (2023) (2) . The objective is to approximate diverticular disease severity from the electronic medical record into groups of Diverticulosis, Mild Diverticulitis, and Operative or Recurrent Inpatient 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.
Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is a relatively common Mendelian genetic disorder that is associated with elevated plasma low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels and dramatically increased lifetime risk for premature atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD). FH can be diagnosed based on clinical presentation and/or genetic testing results, with a positive genetic testing considered to be the “gold standard”.
Algorithm to detect functional seizures, also known as:
Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures
Nonepileptic attack disorder
Pseudoseizures
Hystero-epilepsy
Conversion disorder with seizures
Dissociative Seizures