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Table 3 Summary Statistics from the Pack Year and Cessation Date Algorithms

From: Building a tobacco user registry by extracting multiple smoking behaviors from clinical notes

Annotation

a) Pack years regular expression extraction

Annotation

b) Cessation date regular expression extraction

Sensitivity: 91.7%

Specificity: 95.2%

Sensitivity: 63.2%

Specificity: 94.6%

Pack year history found

Pack year history not found

Cessation date found

Cessation date not found

Pack year history recorded

33

3

Cessation date recorded

12

7

No pack year history recorded

8

179

Cessation date not recorded

11

193

  1. Sensitivity, specificity, and crosstabulation of the annotation vs. the classification of a) the pack year algorithm and b) the cessation date algorithm