( past participle of dire which means to say) a term of complete agreement. DITTO can be adapted for use in another healthcare facility or to detect a different diagnosis. ditto basically means ' you said it ' in Italian. Its accuracy substantially exceeded the performance of currently used techniques for each of the three diseases. DITTO processed 170,000 notes/hr with sensitivity ranging from 74 to 96%, and specificity from 86 to 100%. Finding, knowing and exploiting your musical niche is key to your promotional campaign. Thriving music subcultures exist in all corners of the world, some huge and sprawling, some small and dedicated. Where and to whom you market your music can make all the difference. Evaluation of DITTO on the example of diabetes mellitus, hypertension and overweight has shown it to be rapid and highly accurate. Know your audience & focus on your niche. We have therefore designed DITTO - a tool for identification of patients with a documented specific diagnosis through analysis of the text of physician notes in the electronic medical record. Currently used methods are either labor-intensive or imprecise.
A number of important applications in medicine and biomedical research, including quality of care surveillance and identification of prospective study subjects, require identification of large cohorts of patients with a specific diagnosis.