A natural language processing approach to categorise contributing factors from patient safety event reports.

Journal: BMJ health & care informatics
Published Date: May 1, 2023

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study was to explore the use of natural language processing (NLP) algorithm to categorise contributing factors from patient safety event (PSE). Contributing factors are elements in the healthcare process (eg, communication failures) that instigate an event or allow an event to occur. Contributing factors can be used to further investigate why safety events occurred.

Authors

  • Azade Tabaie
    Department of Biomedical Informatics, Emory School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA.
  • Srijan Sengupta
    Department of Statistics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg 24061.
  • Zoe M Pruitt
    National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare, MedStar Health Research Institute, Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
  • Allan Fong
    National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare, MedStar Health, Washington, District of Columbia.

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