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. 2019 Feb 21;137(5):491–497. doi: 10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2018.7051

Table 1. Variables in the Electronic Health Record Evaluated to Assess for the Presence of Exfoliation Syndrome.

Variable Health Record Entry Documenting No. Health Record Entry Documenting %
Demographic Age NA
Sex NA
Race/ethnicity NA
Clinical encounter No. of clinical encounters NA
Billing code documentation No. of visits with ICD-9 documentation of XFS % of Visits with ICD-9 documentation of XFS
No. of visits with ICD-10 documentation of XFS % of Visits with ICD-10 documentation of XFS
Clinical examination note No. of visits with XFS mentioned in iris examination % of Visits with XFS mentioned in iris examination
No. of visits with XFS mentioned in lens examination % of Visits with XFS mentioned in lens examination
No. of visits with iris TIDs mentioned in iris examination % of Visits with iris TIDs mentioned in iris examination
Documentation of lens dislocation/subluxation NA
Documentation of phacodonesis NA
Problem list No. of visits with problem list documentation of XFS % of Visits with problem list documentation of XFS
Unstructured data No. of mentions of XFS detected using NLP across all clinical encounters % of All clinical encounters with ≥1 mention of XFS detected using NLP

Abbreviations: ICD, International Classification of Diseases; NA, not applicable; NLP, natural language processing; XFS, exfoliation syndrome; TID, transillumination defect.