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. 2024 May 17;43:102765. doi: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2024.102765

Table 1.

Smallest Generalized Edit Distance (GED) Matching Scores < 120 Observed within a Monitoring Visit 7/16/2002 and 3/31/2021 (1,848,562 single word records; visit records = 183,600).

Number of GED matching scores < 120

GED Fuzzy < 120 Scorea Anxiety
Asthma
Ulcer
n %b n % b n % b
0 10,078 94.4 63,756 98.4 72,056 94.6
10 13 0.1 27 0 74 0.1
20 30 0.3 57 0.1 343 0.4
30 0 0 0 0 4 0
40 0 0 2 0 2 0
50 2 0 81 0.1 14 0
60 0 0 0 0 0 0
70 7 0.1 6 0 14 0
100 544 5.1 875 1.4 3666 4.8
Total Identified (GED <120) 10,674 64,804 76,173
Total Not Identified (GED ≥ 120) 172,926 118,796 107,427
a

Excludes scores ≥ 120.

b

Percent of total identified with a GED score < 120.