Natural Language Processing Applied to Clinical Documentation in Post-acute Care Settings: A Scoping Review.

Journal: Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
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Abstract

OBJECTIVES: To determine the scope of the application of natural language processing to free-text clinical notes in post-acute care and provide a foundation for future natural language processing-based research in these settings.

Authors

  • Danielle Scharp
    Columbia University School of Nursing, New York, NY.
  • Mollie Hobensack
    Columbia University School of Nursing, United States. Electronic address: mxh2000@cumc.columbia.edu.
  • Anahita Davoudi
    Biostatistics, Epidemiology & Informatics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
  • Maxim Topaz
    Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.