Prescription dose instruction parser for Public Health Scotland

Warning

This project is a work in progress. The documentation is not yet finished, and the code is preliminary. We do not advise using the code at this stage. Please contact phs.edris@phs.scot with any queries.

This is the documentation for the tool developed at Public Health Scotland to parse prescription dose instruction free text into structured output.

This work is a collaboation between the Electronic Data Research Innovation Service and Prescribing Team. The tool has drawn heavily upon the med 7 and parsigs projects, adapted and extended to apply to the prescribing information free text held by Public Health Scotland.

Contents:

• Installation
  • Basic install
  • Development install
• Overview
  • Background
  • Methods
  • Project layout
• Parsing dose instructions
  • A single instruction
  • Multiple dose instructions
  • Providing input IDs
  • Usage from Python
• Training a new named entity recogniser model
  • Pre-processing
  • Named Entity Recognition (NER)
• Adapting the code to similar tasks
  • Parsing dose instructions for specific drugs or conditions
  • Extracting different structural information
  • General application to medical free text parsing
• dose_instruction_parser module reference
  • dose_instruction_parser package

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page