Development of a Natural Language Processing Algorithm to Identify and Evaluate Transgender Patients in Electronic Health Record Systems.

Journal: Ethnicity & disease
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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To create a natural language processing (NLP) algorithm to identify transgender patients in electronic health records.

Authors

  • Jesse M Ehrenfeld
    Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University, 2525 West End Ave, Suite 14113, Nashville, TN, 37203, USA.
  • Keanan Gabriel Gottlieb
    Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Program for LGBTQ Health; Nashville, Tennessee.
  • Lauren Brittany Beach
    Northwestern University, Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health & Wellbeing, Chicago, Illinois.
  • Shelby E Monahan
    Western Kentucky University, Department of Psychology; Bowling Green, Kentucky.
  • Daniel Fabbri
    Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America.