Social Risk Factors are Associated with Risk for Hospitalization in Home Health Care: A Natural Language Processing Study.

Journal: Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
PMID: 37553081

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to develop a natural language processing (NLP) system that identified social risk factors in home health care (HHC) clinical notes and to examine the association between social risk factors and hospitalization or an emergency department (ED) visit.

Authors

  • Mollie Hobensack
    Columbia University School of Nursing, United States. Electronic address: mxh2000@cumc.columbia.edu.
  • Jiyoun Song
    School of Nursing, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.
  • Sungho Oh
    University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
  • Lauren Evans
    Center for Home Care Policy & Research, VNS Health, New York, NY, USA.
  • Anahita Davoudi
    Biostatistics, Epidemiology & Informatics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
  • Kathryn H Bowles
    Visiting Nurse Service of New York, NY, USA; School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA.
  • Margaret V McDonald
    The Visiting Nurse Service of New York, New York, NY, USA.
  • Yolanda Barrón
    Center for Home Care Policy & Research, VNS Health, New York, NY, USA.
  • Sridevi Sridharan
    Center for Home Care Policy & Research, Visiting Nurse Service of New York, New York, NY.
  • Andrea S Wallace
    The University of Utah College of Nursing, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
  • Maxim Topaz
    Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

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