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. 2015 Nov 5;2015:376–385.

Table 1:

Distribution of drug use elements across sources.

Standards Clinical Text Research Measures
Element HL7 openEHR MTS (n=465) UVMMC(n=1,205) PhenX Toolkit (n=2,019) CDE Browser(n=343)
Status* X X 35 (7.5%) 103 (8.5%) 1 (0.4%)
Certainty* 5 (1.1%) 1 (0.1%) 140 (6.90%) 20 (8.5%)
Negation* X 110 (23.7%) 54 (4.5%) 61 (3.0%) 17 (7.3%)
Temporal* 2 (0.2%) 9 (0.4%) 2 (0.9%)
 Start Date* X X 3 (0.2%)
 Start Age* X 5 (0.4%) 9 (0.4%) 2 (0.9%)
 Quit Date* X X 31 (2.6%) 2 (0.9%)
 Quit Age* X
 Duration of Use 11 (0.9%) 7 (0.3%) 2 (0.9%)
 Duration Since Quit* 24 (2.0%) 40 (2.0%)
 Duration Since Time Point 1 (0.2%) 3 (0.2%) 7 (0.3%)
 Time Frame* 6 (1.3%) 84 (7.0%) 174 (8.6%) 7 (3.0%)
 Time Point 7 (1.5%) 48 (4.0%) 7 (0.3%) 3 (1.3%)
Method* X X 99 (21.3%) 147 (12.2%) 138 (6.8%) 40 (17.1%)
Type* X X 145 (31.2%) 327 (27.1%) 673 (33.3%) 152 (65.0%)
 Subtype* 6 (1.3%) 2 (0.2%)
Amount* X X 16 (3.44%) 69 (5.7%) 80 (4.0%) 13 (5.6%)
Frequency* X X 5 (1.1%) 218 (18.1%) 591 (29.3%) 81 (34.6%)
Context* 1 (0.2%) 19 (1.6%) 5 (0.2%) 1 (0.4%)
 Situation* 2 (0.4%) 5 (0.4%)
 Location* 2 (0.2%)
 Subject* 37 (1.8%)
Change* X
Triggers* X
Evidence of Dependence* X 21 (4.5%) 21 (1.7%) 28 (1.4%) 1 (0.4%)
Cessation* X 1 (0.2%) 6 (0.5%) 9 (0.4%)
Other* X 5 (1.1%) 20 (1.7%) 3 (0.1%)
# of Elements 7 15 16 23 18 15

number of annotations;

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element derived from previous work20, 36, 37.