Table 1 Number of temporal and high-risk events with a risk > 20%.

From: Analysis of free text in electronic health records for identification of cancer patient trajectories

 

Number of identified events

High-risk events

Disease, symptoms and conditions

8,326

557

 

Control of confounders

No control of confounders

Risk correlation with and without confounder correction.

R2 = 0.89

R = 0.11

 

Diseases, symptoms, signs

Preceding events (n)

Diseases, symptoms or signs with the highest number of preceding events

Vomiting

67

Nausea

41

Death

39

Hemorrhage

36

Metastasis

7

Cancer

6

Diagnosis of cancer

Preceding event

Risk, %

Dysuria

36

Embolism

35

Myalgia

31

Diagnosis of metastasis

Preceding event

Risk, %

Ischemic disease

26

Syncope

25

Jaundice

22

Fatigue

20

  1. We evaluate the control of confounders by correlating the two trajectory sets with and without control of confounders and list the highlighted events together with cancer and metastatic risk events.