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Table 4 The sensitivity and specificity of HITEx for smoking status extraction.

From: Extracting principal diagnosis, co-morbidity and smoking status for asthma research: evaluation of a natural language processing system

 

Current Smoker

Never Smoked

Denies Smoking

Past Smoker

Not mentioned/Insufficient Data

Sensitivity

90.32%

60.00%

100.00%

77.78%

94.57%

Specificity

92.56%

98.60%

99.34%

99.26%

95.08%