Comparison of six natural language processing approaches to assessing firearm access in Veterans Health Administration electronic health records.

Journal: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Access to firearms is associated with increased suicide risk. Our aim was to develop a natural language processing approach to characterizing firearm access in clinical records.

Authors

  • Joshua Trujeque
    Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN 55455, United States.
  • R Adams Dudley
    Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco.
  • Nathan Mesfin
    Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN 55455, United States.
  • Nicholas E Ingraham
    Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America.
  • Isai Ortiz
    Medical School, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, United States.
  • Ann Bangerter
    Center for Care Delivery and Outcomes Research (CCDOR), Veterans Affairs (VA) Minneapolis Healthcare System, Minneapolis, MN 55417, United States.
  • Anjan Chakraborty
    Center for Care Delivery and Outcomes Research (CCDOR), Veterans Affairs (VA) Minneapolis Healthcare System, Minneapolis, MN 55417, United States.
  • Dalton Schutte
    Institute for Health Informatics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA; Department of Pharmaceutical Care & Health Systems, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
  • Jeremy Yeung
  • Ying Liu
    The First School of Clinical Medicine, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China.
  • Alicia Woodward-Abel
    Center for Care Delivery and Outcomes Research (CCDOR), Veterans Affairs (VA) Minneapolis Healthcare System, Minneapolis, MN 55417, United States.
  • Emma Bromley
    Center for Care Delivery and Outcomes Research (CCDOR), Veterans Affairs (VA) Minneapolis Healthcare System, Minneapolis, MN 55417, United States.
  • Rui Zhang
    Department of Cardiology, Zhongda Hospital, Medical School of Southeast University, Nanjing, China.
  • Lisa A Brenner
    Rocky Mountain Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center for Suicide Prevention, Rocky Mountain Regional VAMC (RMR VAMC), Aurora, CO 80045, United States.
  • Joseph A Simonetti
    Rocky Mountain Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center for Suicide Prevention, Rocky Mountain Regional VAMC (RMR VAMC), Aurora, CO 80045, United States.