About the Authors

Zhuoran Wang

Affiliations Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, United Kingdom, School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Anoop D. Shah

anoop@doctors.org.uk

Affiliation Clinical Epidemiology Group, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom

A. Rosemary Tate

Affiliation Department of Informatics, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom

Spiros Denaxas

Affiliation Clinical Epidemiology Group, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom

John Shawe-Taylor

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Harry Hemingway

Affiliation Clinical Epidemiology Group, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZW. Performed the experiments: ZW. Analyzed the data: ZW ADS ART. Wrote the paper: ADS. Reviewed and contributed to the manuscript: ZW ART SD JST HH. Obtained anonymised free text from GPRD for testing the algorithm: SD ART. Study supervision: JST HH.