Measuring the Value of a Practical Text Mining Approach to Identify Patients With Housing Issues in the Free-Text Notes in Electronic Health Record: Findings of a Retrospective Cohort Study

Measuring the Value of a Practical Text Mining Approach to Identify Patients With Housing Issues in the Free-Text Notes in Electronic Health Record: Findings of a Retrospective Cohort Study

Introduction: Despite the growing efforts to standardize coding for social determinants of health (SDOH), they are infrequently captured in electronic health records (EHRs). Most SDOH variables are still captured in the unstructured fields (i.e., free-text) of EHRs. In this study we attempt to evalu...

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Main Authors: Elham Hatef, Gurmehar Singh Deol, Masoud Rouhizadeh, Ashley Li, Katyusha Eibensteiner, Craig B. Monsen, Roman Bratslaver, Margaret Senese, Hadi Kharrazi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Public Health
Subjects:
electronic health record
free-text
clinical notes
housing
natural language processing
social determinants of health
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2021.697501/full

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