Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Oct 12.
Published in final edited form as: Methods Inf Med. 2013 May 13;52(5):395–402. doi: 10.3414/ME12-01-0054

Table 3.

Top 20 positive filter candidate terms in the renal filter development

Filter (fi) θ(fi) Filter Performance
Term Source Data set Sensitivity Specificity Precision Accuracy
kidney title 5.851 Development 0.145 1.000 1.000 0.830
Validation 0.139 0.999 0.980 0.828
kidney failure, chronic MeSH 5.835 Development 0.143 1.000 1.000 0.829
Validation 0.186 1.000 1.000 0.838
dialysis abstract 5.819 Development 0.141 1.000 1.000 0.829
Validation 0.139 1.000 1.000 0.829
serum creatinine abstract 5.701 Development 0.128 1.000 1.000 0.826
Validation 0.148 0.999 0.981 0.830
kidney transplantation MeSH 5.572 Development 0.114 1.000 1.000 0.824
Validation 0.096 1.000 1.000 0.820
renal title 5.548 Development 0.331 0.998 0.977 0.865
Validation 0.348 0.999 0.984 0.869
kidney disease abstract 5.532 Development 0.108 1.000 0.982 0.822
Validation 0.180 1.000 1.000 0.837
proteinuria abstract 5.532 Development 0.108 1.000 0.982 0.822
Validation 0.122 0.999 0.977 0.824
glomerular abstract 5.512 Development 0.106 1.000 0.982 0.822
Validation 0.099 0.999 0.971 0.820
creatinine MeSH 5.449 Development 0.101 1.000 0.981 0.821
Validation 0.093 0.999 0.970 0.819
chronic kidney abstract 5.383 Development 0.095 1.000 0.980 0.819
Validation 0.104 1.000 1.000 0.822
renal abstract 5.362 Development 0.607 0.993 0.954 0.916
Validation 0.672 0.991 0.947 0.927
renal dialysis MeSH 5.361 Development 0.095 1.000 1.000 0.820
Validation 0.130 1.000 1.000 0.827
renal disease abstract 5.290 Development 0.087 1.000 0.978 0.818
Validation 0.107 0.999 0.974 0.822
creatinine /blood MeSH 5.214 Development 0.081 1.000 0.977 0.817
Validation 0.067 0.999 0.958 0.814
creatinine abstract 5.173 Development 0.203 0.999 0.972 0.840
Validation 0.058 0.999 0.952 0.812
glomerular filtration abstract 5.161 Development 0.077 1.000 0.976 0.816
Validation 0.058 0.999 0.952 0.808
filtration rate abstract 5.134 Development 0.075 1.000 0.975 0.816
Validation 0.055 0.999 0.950 0.811
renal failure abstract 5.109 Development 0.137 0.999 0.973 0.828
Validation 0.159 0.998 0.948 0.831
kidney neoplasms MeSH 5.106 Development 0.075 1.000 1.000 0.816
Validation 0.075 1.000 1.000 0.816