Assessing the transferability of BERT to patient safety: classifying multiple types of incident reports.

Journal: BMJ health & care informatics
Published Date: Aug 18, 2025

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the transferability of BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) to patient safety, we use it to classify incident reports characterised by limited data and encompassing multiple imbalanced classes.

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  • Ying Wang
    Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Science of Shaanxi Province, School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710062, China.
  • Farah Magrabi
    Centre for Health Informatics, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Australia.

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