Test collections for EHR-based clinical information retrieval

Objectives: To create test collections for evaluating clinical Information Retrieval (IR) systems and advancing clinical IR research.
Materials and Methods: Electronic Health Records (EHR) data, including structured and free text data, from 45,000 patients who are a part of the Mayo Clinic Biobank cohort was retrieved from the clinical data warehouse. The clinical IR system indexed 42 million free-text EHR documents. The search queries consisted of 56 topics developed through a collaboration between Mayo Clinic and Oregon Health & Science University. We described the creation of test collections, including a to-be-evaluated document pool using five retrieval models, and human assessment guidelines. We analyzed the relevance judgment results in terms of human agreement and time spent, and results of three levels of relevance, and reported performance of five retrieval models.
Results: The two judges had a moderate overall agreement with a Kappa value of 0.49, spent a consistent amo...