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Table 1 Development lexicon entries for terms and term groups and uncertainty profiles

From: Automated identification of pneumonia in chest radiograph reports in critically ill patients

Terms and term groups

Uncertainty profiles

Pneumonia-related

Non-pneumonia

Low uncertainty

High uncertainty or Versus

Pneumonia

Atelectasis

Probable

Cannot exclude

Bronchopneumonia

Edema

Consider

Clinical correlation

Air bronchogram

Congestive heart failure

Concerning for

Could represent

Consolidation

Heart failure

Consistent with

Possible

Infiltrate

ARDS

Suspicious

Rule out

Opacity

Fluid overload

Suspect

Questionable

Density

Infarct

Suggestive of

Might

Pneumonitis

Contusion

Likely representing

May

Pneumonic

Hemorrhage

Compatible with

 

Abcess

Mass

 

Versus

Aspiration

Low lung volume

 

Plus minus

Cavity

Hypoinflation

 

Or

Airspace disease/process

Congestion

 

And/or

Parenchymal process

Malignancy

 

/

 

Nodule

  
 

Neoplasm

  
 

Collapse

  
 

Effusion

  
 

Scar

  
 

Fluid

  
  1. The table does not include all sub-combinations (‘pneumonic infiltrate’) or morphological variants (‘clinical correlation’ and ‘clinically correlate’).
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BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

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