Use of Natural Language Processing to Assess Frequency of Functional Status Documentation for Patients Newly Diagnosed With Colorectal Cancer.

Journal: JAMA oncology
PMID: 32880603

Abstract

This cross-sectional study applies natural language processing to electronic health records from a large health care delivery system to examine performance status documentation among patients newly diagnosed with colorectal cancer.

Authors

  • Nicole Agaronnik
    Health Policy Research Center-Mongan Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
  • Charlotta Lindvall
    Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
  • Areej El-Jawahri
    Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Division of Hematology and Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA.
  • Wei He
    Department of Orthopaedics Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China.
  • Lisa Iezzoni
    Health Policy Research Center-Mongan Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.

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