Contexts
Prenegation:
List of words or phrases that occur before a keyword or concept that indicate a negated
concept (i.e. no pneumonia)
Postnegation:
List of words or phrases that occur after a keyword or concept that indicate a negated
concept (i.e. pneumonia not present)
History:
List of words or phrases that occur before a keyword or concept that indicate a historical
concept (i.e. history of pneumonia)
Family:
List of words or phrases that occur before or after a keyword or concept that indicate a
family historical concept (i.e. Mother with pneumonia)
Ambiguous:
List of words or phrases that occur before or after a keyword or concept that indicate an
uncertain concept (i.e. possible pneumonia)
PreMicro:
List of words or phrases that occur before a keyword or concept that indicate a negated
concept (i.e. no MRSA) that are specific for microbiology reports
PostMicro:
List of words or phrases that occur after a keyword or concept that indicate a negated
concept (i.e. MRSA not present) that are specific for microbiology reports
Concept data
Concept_Name
Name that gets placed onto report for positive findings
Code
Standardized code for this concept name Format: code|codeSystem
Name
Name of the concept
Absolutes
Patterns that indicate a keyword match to a concept in regular expression format
Abs_Except
Patterns that indicate an exception to keyword match to a concept in regular expression
format and that can occur anywhere in the sentence
AltNum
Number of alternate patterns for concept keywords (deprecated)
PreConcept
Patterns that occur before an alternate keyword match of a concept in regular expression
format
PostConcept
Patterns that occur after an alternate keyword match of a concept in regular expression
format
AltCon1
First alternate keyword pattern that indicate a keyword match to a concept in regular
expression format (combines with PreConcept and PostConcept as in Pre + AltCon1 +
Post)
AltCon2
Second alternate keyword pattern that indicate a keyword match to a concept in regular
expression format (combines with PreConcept and PostConcept as in Pre + AltCon2 +
Post)
AltCon3
Special case alternate keyword pattern that indicate a keyword match to a concept in
regular expression format (is a standalone alternate does not combine with PreConcept
and PostConcept)
Alt_Except
Terms that indicate an exception to an alternate keyword match to a concept that can
occur anywhere in the sentence (terms delimited by _ )
Neg_Except_Con
‘Undoes’ a negation -negation terms that are not to be negated for this concept that can
occur anywhere in the sentence (combines with Neg_Ex_Neg) (terms delimited by _ )
Neg_Ex_Neg
Combines with Neg_Except_Con to cause an exception to a negation (terms delimited by
_)
On_off
Terms which turn on and off text extraction in a report Format: on|off (terms delimited by
_)
Report_Extraction
Term or Phrase which must be present in a report for report to be considered valid (terms
delimited by _ and are case sensitive)
Section_Extraction
Term or Phrase which must be present in a section of report for section to be considered
valid (terms delimited by _ and are case sensitive)
Section_Start
Term or Phrase indicating the beginning of a target section (terms delimited by _ and are
case sensitive)
Section_End
Term or Phrase indicating the end of a target section (terms delimited by _ and are case
sensitive)
Special_negs
Term or Phrase that indicates negation that occurs anywhere within the sentence (terms
delimited by _ )
Sml_window_neg
Term or Phrase that indicates negation that occurs within a 3 word window of words
around a concept (terms delimited by _ )
absolute_negs
Term or Phrase that indicates negation that occurs anywhere within a report (terms
delimited by _ )
paragraph
Term or Phrase that must be found within 4 sentences before and 2 sentences after a
concept sentence else the concept is excepted (terms delimited by _ )
Contexts
Contexts that are to be analyzed when processing this concept (terms delimited by _ )