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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Oct 4.
Published in final edited form as: KDD. 2014 Aug 24;2014:75–84. doi: 10.1145/2623330.2623742

Table 2.

Top ten words in topics enriched for in-hospital mortality, hospital survival (any number of days post-discharge), and 1 year post-discharge mortality.

Topic Top Ten Words Possible
Topic
In-
hospital
Mor-
tality
27 name, family, neuro, care,
noted, status, plan, stitle,
dr, remains
Discussion
of end-
of-life
care

15 intubated, vent, ett, secre-
tions, propofol, abg, respi-
ratory, resp, care, sedated
Respiratory
failure

7 thick, secretions, vent,
trach, resp, tf, tube,
coarse, cont, suctioned
Respiratory
infection

5 liver, renal, hepatic,
ascites, dialysis, failure,
ow, transplant, portal,
ultrasound
Renal
Failure

Hospital
Sur-
vival
1 cabg, pain, ct, artery,
coronary, valve, post,
wires, chest, sp
Cardio-
vascular
surgery

40 left, fracture, ap, views,
reason, clip, hip, distal,
lat, report
Fracture

16 gtt, insulin, bs, lasix,
endo, monitor, mg, am,
plan, iv
Chronic
diabetes

1 Year
Mor-
tality
3 picc, line, name, proce-
dure, catheter, vein, tip,
placement, clip, access
PICC5
line inser-
tion

4 biliary, mass, duct,
metastatic, bile, cancer,
left, ca, tumor, clip
Cancer
treatment

45 catheter, name, pro-
cedure, contrast, wire,
french, placed, needle,
advanced, clip
Coronary
catheteri-
zation