Augmented Curation of Unstructured Clinical Notes from a Massive EHR System Reveals Specific Phenotypic Signature of Impending COVID-19 Diagnosis
Abstract
Understanding the temporal dynamics of COVID-19 patient phenotypes is necessary to derive fine-grained resolution of pathophysiology. Here we use state-of-the-art deep neural networks over an institution-wide machine intelligence platform for the augmented curation of 15.8 million clinical notes from 30,494 patients subjected to COVID-19 PCR diagnostic testing. By contrasting the Electronic Health Record (EHR)-derived clinical phenotypes of COVID-19-positive (COVIDpos, n=635) versus COVID-19-negative (COVIDneg, n=29,859) patients over each day of the week preceding the PCR testing date, we identify anosmia/dysgeusia (37.4-fold), myalgia/arthralgia (2.6-fold), diarrhea (2.2-fold), fever/chills (2.1-fold), respiratory difficulty (1.9-fold), and cough (1.8-fold) as significantly amplified in COVIDpos over COVIDneg patients. The specific combination of cough and diarrhea has a 3.2-fold amplification in COVIDpos patients during the week prior to PCR testing, and along with anosmia/dysgeusia, constitutes the earliest EHR-derived signature of COVID-19 (4-7 days prior to typical PCR testing date). This study introduces an Augmented Intelligence platform for the real-time synthesis of institutional knowledge captured in EHRs. The platform holds tremendous potential for scaling up curation throughput, with minimal need for retraining underlying neural networks, thus promising EHR-powered early diagnosis for a broad spectrum of diseases.
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@article{arxiv.2004.09338,
title = {Augmented Curation of Unstructured Clinical Notes from a Massive EHR System Reveals Specific Phenotypic Signature of Impending COVID-19 Diagnosis},
author = {FNU Shweta and Karthik Murugadoss and Samir Awasthi and AJ Venkatakrishnan and Arjun Puranik and Martin Kang and Brian W. Pickering and John C. O'Horo and Philippe R. Bauer and Raymund R. Razonable and Paschalis Vergidis and Zelalem Temesgen and Stacey Rizza and Maryam Mahmood and Walter R. Wilson and Douglas Challener and Praveen Anand and Matt Liebers and Zainab Doctor and Eli Silvert and Hugo Solomon and Tyler Wagner and Gregory J. Gores and Amy W. Williams and John Halamka and Venky Soundararajan and Andrew D. Badley},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.09338},
year = {2020}
}