Natural language processing for the assessment of cardiovascular disease comorbidities: The cardio-Canary comorbidity project.

Journal: Clinical cardiology
Published Date: Aug 4, 2021

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Accurate ascertainment of comorbidities is paramount in clinical research. While manual adjudication is labor-intensive and expensive, the adoption of electronic health records enables computational analysis of free-text documentation using natural language processing (NLP) tools.

Authors

  • Adam N Berman
    Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
  • David W Biery
    Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
  • Curtis Ginder
    Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
  • Olivia L Hulme
    Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
  • Daniel Marcusa
    Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
  • Orly Leiva
    Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
  • Wanda Y Wu
    Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
  • Nicholas Cardin
    Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
  • Jon Hainer
    Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
  • Deepak L Bhatt
    Brigham and Women's Hospital Heart and Vascular Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Marcelo F Di Carli
    Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
  • Alexander Turchin
    Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston Massachusetts USA.
  • Ron Blankstein
    Department of Medicine (Cardiovascular), Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

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