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. 2019 Apr 1;9(4):e023232. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023232

Table 2.

Information extracted from 200 epilepsy clinic letters: number of items and number of letters with items extracted.

Information extracted from 200 epilepsy clinic letters
Variable All items extracted Number of letters with items extracted
Clinician Algorithm TP FP FN Clinician Algorithm TP FP FN
Clinic date 191 188 186 2 5 186 181 181 0 5
Date of birth 201 197 197 0 4 199 195 195 0 4
Epilepsy diagnosis 383 387 341 46 42 150 152 143 9 7
Epilepsy type 89 79 71 8 18 70 67 61 6 9
Focal seizures 145 105 101 4 44 71 61 59 2 12
Generalised seizures 151 89 79 10 72 76 58 52 6 24
Seizure frequency 153 95 82 13 71 119 77 71 6 48
Medication 316 309 297 12 19 157 145 143 2 14
CT scan 17 18 10 8 7 16 13 10 3 6
MRI scan 109 91 75 16 34 66 60 52 8 14
EEG 170 157 128 29 42 79 82 71 11 8
All 1925 1715 1567 148 358 1189 1091 1038 53 151

EEG, electroencephalogram; ExECT, extraction of epilepsy clinical text; FN, false negative (an item annotated by the clinician but not annotated by ExECT); FP, false positive (an item annotated by ExECT but not annotated by the clinician); TP, true positive (an item annotated by the clinician and ExECT).