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Table 4 Performance of the medication matching process

From: An end-to-end hybrid algorithm for automated medication discrepancy detection

Process

Medication matching

Ent. Det. + Att. Link. + Med. Mat.

Matched

Discrepant

Matched

Discrepant

Category

P [%]

R [%]

F [%]

P [%]

R [%]

F [%]

P [%]

R [%]

F [%]

P [%]

R [%]

F [%]

Medication name

96.8

98.2

97.5

88.6

82.5

85.5

92.4

90.7

91.5

71.5

65.2

68.2

Amount

98.8

91.7

95.1

39.8

82.6

53.7

98.4

86.3

92.0

34.2

68.7

45.7

Dosage

97.8

90.2

93.9

41.2

77.4

53.8

97.2

83.0

89.6

29.1

54.3

37.9

Duration

98.6

82.9

90.1

17.6

75.0

28.6

100

40.5

57.6

2.2

9.1

3.5

Form

99.4

90.8

95.0

8.2

61.7

14.4

99.3

86.6

92.5

5.3

39.2

9.4

Frequency

98.3

83.0

90.0

30.0

83.0

44.1

98.0

77.0

86.2

25.1

68.6

36.8

Route

99.7

90.1

94.7

19.7

89.5

32.3

99.4

86.3

92.4

16.9

72.8

27.4

Strength

99.5

93.9

96.6

40.0

89.5

55.3

99.2

89.3

94.0

30.1

76.6

43.2

Overall

98.1

92.8

95.3

53.4

81.8

64.7

95.9

86.6

91.0

42.2

64.6

51.0

  1. P indicates precision; R recall; F F-value.