Identifying Functional Status Impairment in People Living With Dementia Through Natural Language Processing of Clinical Documents: Cross-Sectional Study.

Journal: Journal of medical Internet research
PMID: 38349732

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Assessment of activities of daily living (ADLs) and instrumental ADLs (iADLs) is key to determining the severity of dementia and care needs among older adults. However, such information is often only documented in free-text clinical notes within the electronic health record and can be challenging to find.

Authors

  • John Laurentiev
    Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Dae Hyun Kim
  • Mufaddal Mahesri
    Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States.
  • Kuan-Yuan Wang
    National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan.
  • Lily G Bessette
    Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States.
  • Cassandra York
    Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States.
  • Heidi Zakoul
    Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States.
  • Su Been Lee
    Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States.
  • Li Zhou
    School of Education, China West Normal University, Nanchong, Sichuan, China.
  • Kueiyu Joshua Lin
    Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics Department of Medicine Brigham and Women's Hospital Harvard Medical School Boston MA.

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