Deep Natural Language Processing Identifies Variation in Care Preference Documentation.

Journal: Journal of pain and symptom management
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Abstract

CONTEXT: Documentation of care preferences within 48 hours of admission to an intensive care unit (ICU) is a National Quality Forum-endorsed quality metric for older adults. Care preferences are poorly captured by administrative data.

Authors

  • Brooks V Udelsman
    Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA. Electronic address: budelsman@partners.org.
  • Edward T Moseley
    University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA, USA.
  • Rebecca L Sudore
    Division of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA; San Francisco Veterans Affairs Health Care System, San Francisco, California, USA.
  • Nancy L Keating
    Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA; Division of General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, USA.
  • Charlotta Lindvall
    Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.