Using convolutional neural networks to identify patient safety incident reports by type and severity.

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

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the feasibility of a convolutional neural network (CNN) with word embedding to identify the type and severity of patient safety incident reports.

Authors

  • Ying Wang
    Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Science of Shaanxi Province, School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710062, China.
  • Enrico Coiera
    1Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Level 6 75 Talavera Rd, Sydney, NSW 2109 Australia.
  • Farah Magrabi
    Centre for Health Informatics, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Australia.