Flag for attending notes identification?

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Flag for attending notes identification? #1584

Closed Feihong-Xu closed 11 months ago

Feihong-Xu commented 1 year ago

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what you have tried We tried to identify attending notes via reading through some examples from the noteevents file, paying special attention to DESCRIPTION and CATEGORY fields.

DESCRIPTION, CATEGORY fields seems a little unclear to identify which notes are attending notes, we were wondering whether there may be a flag for attending note somewhere else? Thank you!

cloverbunny commented 1 year ago

Some more details: as part of a model we are trying to build, we would like to incorporate information about risk factors from clinical notes, but only want to use information notes written by Attending Physicians. We initially attempted to filter notes by DESCRIPTION including 'Attending' [example: 'Physician Attending Admission Note - MICU'], but noticed that this seemed biased towards the MICU because other specific ICUs had different DESCRIPTIONs, such as TSICU notes being called 'Intensivist Note' (which sounds like an attending note, but not entirely clear) and CVICU notes being called 'ICU Note - CVI'.

We were wondering if these is another way to categorize this that we have overlooked, such as a Note Author Role (resident vs fellow vs attending etc) data source? Do you have any thoughts, @alistairewj ? (PS: thank you for all you do for MIMIC, it is an amazing resource!)

cloverbunny commented 12 months ago

Not sure if Alistair is out of office, so going to also tag @tompollard to see if you have any thoughts (thank you for all you do for MIMIC!)

alistairewj commented 12 months ago

Not out of office just way too busy ;) Yeah, this is MIMIC-III right? The description / title is not very well structured, just a free-text field. You can definitely use the cgid to identify who wrote the note, and that should work to identify physician notes. They also have a very obvious structure to them (that is, the note itself, you could probably regex to find this).

cloverbunny commented 12 months ago

Thank you so much, Alistair! 🙇 @Feihong-Xu and I will look into cgid!