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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Oct 13.
Published in final edited form as: Methods Inf Med. 2013 May 13;52(5):382–394. doi: 10.3414/ME12-01-0092

Table 6.

Distribution of the number of UMLS terms in the 1,437 eligibility features

Class/Category (M=Number of features per category) % of exact UMLS match1 %Contain unmatched terms2
Disease-Characteristic Features
 Biopsy (M=10) 100% 0%
 Device (M=11) 81.82% 18.18%
 Diagnostic Test (M=34) 64.71% 35.29%
 Disease (M=550) 87.27% 12.73%
 Laboratory Variable (M=87) 90.80% 9.20%
 Medication (M=251) 94.42% 5.58%
 Procedure (M=70) 87.14% 12.86%
 Staging Info (M=102) 87.25% 12.75%
 Surgery (M=55) 74.55% 25.45%
 Therapy (M=100) 77.00% 23.00%
Total within Disease-Characteristic 87.01% (M=1,105) 12.99% (M=165)

Patient-Characteristic Features

 Accepts Healthy Volunteers (M=1) 0% 100%
 Age (M=17) 0% 100%
 Gender (M=2) 0% 100%
 Life Expectancy (M=10) 100% 0%
 Menopause (M=6) 100% 0%
 Other Patient Characteristic (M=131) 34.35% 65.65%
Total within Patient-Characteristic 36.53% (M=61) 63.47% (M=106)

 Grand Total (M=1437) 81.14% (M=1,166) 18.86% (M=271)
1

Exact UMLS match indicates that all terms in the feature were mapped to UMLS concepts.

2

‘% contain unmatched terms’ indicates the percentage of features per category that were not exactly matched to the UMLS.