Clinical Assertion Status Detection

Classifying the assertions made on given medical concepts as being present, absent, or possible in the patient, conditionally present in the patient under certain circumstances, hypothetically present in the patient at some future point, and mentioned in the patient report but associated with someoneelse. (e.g. clinical finding pertains to the patient by assigning a label such as present (”patient is diabetic”), absent (”patient denies nausea”), conditional (”dyspnea while climbing stairs”), or associated with someone else (”family history of depression”))

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