Development of a System for Extraction of Patient Drug Prescription from Clinical Notes
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2018
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Faculty of Communication and Information Sciences, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria
Abstract
Doctors are saddled with the challenges of writing clinical notes which serve as a form of
documenting the patient’s clinical histories and at the same time write a drug prescription for
pharmacy to dispense. This manual process of documentation and writing of prescription is very
tedious, stressful, involves duplication and time consuming, most especially for hospital that
have hundreds of patients that needs diagnosis. This paper deals with the extraction of drugs
prescribed by doctors in the clinical note of the patient. The developed system was designed
using MySQL and Visual Basic.NET. The system also takes into considerations the registration
of patients, diagnosis by the Doctor and reports on patient’s history. A total number of 50 drugs
and illness were generated in the library used and four different samples of clinical notes were
collected from Doctors to test run the system. It was able to extract the drug prescribed as
written in the clinical notes successfully.
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Clinical Notes, Extraction, Prescription
Citation
Abikoye, O.C., Salihu, S.S. and Shodolu, W.O. (2018): Development of a System for extraction of patient drug prescription from clinical notes Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on ICT for National Development and Its Sustainability (ICT4NDS 2018), Lawal, R.A., Jimoh, R.G. & Tella, A. (eds.) 112-121. Published by the Faculty of Communication and Information Sciences, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria