Identifying Patients' Smoking Status from Electronic Dental Records Data.

Journal: Studies in health technology and informatics
Published Date: Jan 1, 2017

Abstract

Smoking is a significant risk factor for initiation and progression of oral diseases. A patient's current smoking status and tobacco dependency can aid clinical decision making and treatment planning. The free-text nature of this data limits accessibility causing obstacles during the time of care and research utility. No studies exist on extracting patient's smoking status automatically from the Electronic Dental Record. This study reports the development and evaluation of an NLP system for this purpose.

Authors

  • Jay Patel
    Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Charlestown, MA, USA.
  • Zasim Siddiqui
    Indiana University School of Dentistry, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
  • Anand Krishnan
    Centre for Community Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
  • Thankam Thyvalikakath
    Indiana University School of Dentistry, Indianapolis, IN, USA.

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