Predicting diagnoses with drug orders, routes and doses

Abstract

We found that consideration of not only the drug, but also the route and the dose, had a substantial impact on the ability to predict inpatient diagnoses in real time. This has important implications: knowledge of the diagnoses early in the process may directly improve the quality of care; in addition, the present approach allows for automated pick lists displaying the most likely diagnoses, has the potential to minimise misunderstandings between healthcare professionals, to enable sophisticated CDS and to support efforts aiming to increase the completeness of problem lists.