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Mining and standardizing chinese consumer health terms
BACKGROUND: Health professionals and consumers use different terms to express medical events or concerns, which makes the communication barriers between the professionals and consumers. This may lead to bias in the diagnosis or treatment due to the misunderstanding or incomplete understanding. To so...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6284272/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30526591 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12911-018-0695-6 |
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author | Hou, Li Kang, Hongyu Liu, Yan Li, Luqi Li, Jiao |
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description | BACKGROUND: Health professionals and consumers use different terms to express medical events or concerns, which makes the communication barriers between the professionals and consumers. This may lead to bias in the diagnosis or treatment due to the misunderstanding or incomplete understanding. To solve the issue, a consumer health vocabulary was developed to map the consumer-used health terms to professional-used medical terms. METHODS: In this study, we extracted Chinese consumer health terms from both online health forum and patient education monographs, and manually mapped them to medical terms used by professionals (terms in medical thesauri or in medical books). To ensure the above annotation quality, we developed annotation guidelines. RESULTS: We applied our method to extract consumer-used disease terms in endocrinology, cardiology, gastroenterology and dermatology. In this study, we identified 1349 medical mentions from 8436 questions posted in an online health forum and 1428 articles for patient education monographs. After manual annotation and review, we released 1036 Chinese consumer health terms with mapping to 480 medical terms. Four annotators worked on the manual annotation work following the Chinese consumer health term annotation guidelines. Their average inter-annotator agreement (IAA) score was 93.91% ensuring high consistency of the released terms. CONCLUSIONS: We extracted Chinese consumer health terms from online forum and patient education monographs, and mapped them to medical terms used by professionals. Manual annotation efforts have been made for term annotating and mapping. Our study may contribute to the Chinese consumer health vocabulary construction. In addition, our annotated corpus, both the contexts of consumer health terms and consumer-professional term mapping, would be a useful resource for automatic methodology development. The dataset of the Chinese consumer health terms (CHT) is publicly available at http://www.phoc.org.cn/cht/. |
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spelling | pubmed-62842722018-12-14 Mining and standardizing chinese consumer health terms Hou, Li Kang, Hongyu Liu, Yan Li, Luqi Li, Jiao BMC Med Inform Decis Mak Research BACKGROUND: Health professionals and consumers use different terms to express medical events or concerns, which makes the communication barriers between the professionals and consumers. This may lead to bias in the diagnosis or treatment due to the misunderstanding or incomplete understanding. To solve the issue, a consumer health vocabulary was developed to map the consumer-used health terms to professional-used medical terms. METHODS: In this study, we extracted Chinese consumer health terms from both online health forum and patient education monographs, and manually mapped them to medical terms used by professionals (terms in medical thesauri or in medical books). To ensure the above annotation quality, we developed annotation guidelines. RESULTS: We applied our method to extract consumer-used disease terms in endocrinology, cardiology, gastroenterology and dermatology. In this study, we identified 1349 medical mentions from 8436 questions posted in an online health forum and 1428 articles for patient education monographs. After manual annotation and review, we released 1036 Chinese consumer health terms with mapping to 480 medical terms. Four annotators worked on the manual annotation work following the Chinese consumer health term annotation guidelines. Their average inter-annotator agreement (IAA) score was 93.91% ensuring high consistency of the released terms. CONCLUSIONS: We extracted Chinese consumer health terms from online forum and patient education monographs, and mapped them to medical terms used by professionals. Manual annotation efforts have been made for term annotating and mapping. Our study may contribute to the Chinese consumer health vocabulary construction. In addition, our annotated corpus, both the contexts of consumer health terms and consumer-professional term mapping, would be a useful resource for automatic methodology development. The dataset of the Chinese consumer health terms (CHT) is publicly available at http://www.phoc.org.cn/cht/. BioMed Central 2018-12-07 /pmc/articles/PMC6284272/ /pubmed/30526591 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12911-018-0695-6 Text en © The Author(s). 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Hou, Li Kang, Hongyu Liu, Yan Li, Luqi Li, Jiao Mining and standardizing chinese consumer health terms |
title | Mining and standardizing chinese consumer health terms |
title_full | Mining and standardizing chinese consumer health terms |
title_fullStr | Mining and standardizing chinese consumer health terms |
title_full_unstemmed | Mining and standardizing chinese consumer health terms |
title_short | Mining and standardizing chinese consumer health terms |
title_sort | mining and standardizing chinese consumer health terms |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6284272/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30526591 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12911-018-0695-6 |
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