Rule 1
Mark medical procedures, diagnoses, and medical equipment mentioned in clinical contexts as private. Do not mark general terms outside of medical narratives. Examples of private phrases include 'transthoracic echocardiogram', 'gram-negative spiral bacilli', 'Bruker Corporation, Germany', 'contrast enhanced', 'mesangiolysis'. Non-private examples include 'common cold' or 'basic hospital equipment'. Note: Split adjacent phrases if they span multiple words.
Rule 2
Mark phrases indicating medical conditions, treatments, procedures, and anatomical features as private. Do not mark general terms outside of medical contexts. Examples of private phrases include 'pulmonary wedge resection', 'positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP)', 'displaced fractures', 'peripapillary nerve fiber layer hemorrhages'. Non-private examples include 'common cold' or 'general anatomy terms'. Note: Split adjacent phrases if they span multiple words.
Rule 3
Mark age, gender, and personal titles as private when they appear in referral or medical record introductions, excluding general usage. Example: 'A 68-year-old man was referred by his optometrist'.
Rule 4
Mark time references associated with patient encounters, such as admission dates, outpatient visits, or hospital stays as private. Do not mark non-contextualized or generic references to time. Examples of private phrases include "outpatient department in September 2015", "referred in December", or dates of service-specific visits. Non-private examples include standalone dates without associated patient actions. Note: Ensure adjacent temporal details relevant to medical engagements are split as individual private phrases.
Rule 5
Mark terms indicating medical conditions, treatments, medications, and anatomical features as private. These include specific medical conditions (e.g., ataxia telengiectasia), treatment methods (e.g., Idebenone, esophagectomy), anatomical descriptions (e.g., condyles, cochlea semicircular canals), and physiological measurements (e.g., heart rate, blood glucose). Do not mark general terms outside of medical contexts (e.g., daily, walking). Note: Split adjacent phrases if they span multiple words.
Rule 6
Mark terms indicating medical procedures, diagnostics, test methods, and physiological measurements as private. Examples include 'direct sequencing', 'transesophageal echocardiography (TEE)', 'cardiovascular life support', 'serum bilirubin', 'bleeding', 'progression', 'medication', 'tumor cells', 'fibrillar', 'loose', 'moderate'. Do not mark general terms outside of medical contexts such as 'common', 'daily'. Note: Split adjacent phrases if they span multiple words.
Rule 7
Mark medical conditions and symptoms, such as 'hypertension', 'gout', 'abdominal pain', and 'epigastralgia', as private when they appear in the context of a patient's medical history or symptoms description. Do not mark general or non-medical usage of these terms.
Rule 8
Mark age, gender, and race mentioned as personal identifiers (such as "white", "Hispanic") as private when they appear in medical records or patient introductions. Example: "58-year-old white Hispanic woman". Do not mark general usage of gender and race (such as "man and woman"). Note: If adjacent phrases span multiple words, split them into separate private phrases.
Rule 9
Mark organ transplantation procedures (e.g., lung transplant, kidney transplant) as private, but not generic medical phrases (e.g., evaluated, chronic infection). Note: Split adjacent procedural phrases if they span multiple terms.
Rule 10
Mark specific medical dosages and concentrations (e.g., 0.15 μg/kg, 4 mg every other day, 100/min) as private. Do not mark general terms without specific dosage context (e.g., common, basic).
Rule 11
Mark personal identifiers, such as age, gender, race, and explicit personal titles (e.g., boy, girl, man, woman) as private when they appear in referral or medical record introductions. Examples: 'A 7-year-old boy with Goldenhar syndrome', '58-year-old white Hispanic woman'. Do not mark general usage of these terms outside of direct medical or personal introductions. Note: Split adjacent phrases if they span multiple words.
Rule 12
Mark phrases indicating specific medical dosages, frequencies, percentages, and physiological measurements as private. Examples include '375 mg/m2 weekly', '95%', 'CT', 'once daily', 'computerized tomography', 'PaO2 86 mm Hg'. Do not mark general terms or units without specific context.
Rule 13
Mark specific cardiovascular conditions (e.g., congestive heart failure, CHF, angina pectoris) as private regardless of the surrounding context within a medical narrative. Examples of private phrases include 'diastolic congestive heart failure' and 'heart failure with reduced ejection fraction'. Note: If these conditions are referenced generally outside a medical diagnosis or symptoms context, do not mark (e.g., avoid false positive).