In the previous post I showed a convenient way to navigate the ICD9 hierarchy with Python, now let’s use that to extract the full taxonomy of ICD9 codes for patients who we’ll using to train a classifier. In this post we’ll be extracting the original ICD9 codes …

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ICD9, the International Statistical Classification of Diseases, is one of the common coding systems often used in medical databases for indicating patient conditions. A handy feature of it is that it’s a hierarchical system. Just as the Dewey Decimal System lets someone quickly find a book on geometry (library …

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One tricky thing to deal with in the transition from MIMIC II to MIMIC III has been that IDs have changed and are sometimes missing, so work that a collaborating team did to annotate patient notes in MIMIC II is not translatable to MIMIC III. This notebook shows one way …

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