Journal of pain and symptom management
Nov 4, 2021
CONTEXT: For patients with cancer, uncontrolled pain and other symptoms are the leading cause of unplanned hospitalizations. Early access to specialty palliative care (PC) is effective to reduce symptom burden, but more efficient approaches are neede...
Journal of pain and symptom management
Jul 14, 2021
CONTEXT: Large multisite clinical trials studying decision-making when facing serious illness require an efficient method for abstraction of advance care planning (ACP) documentation from clinical text documents. However, the current gold standard me...
Journal of pain and symptom management
Aug 25, 2020
CONTEXT: Goals-of-care discussions are an important quality metric in palliative care. However, goals-of-care discussions are often documented as free text in diverse locations. It is difficult to identify these discussions in the electronic health r...
Journal of pain and symptom management
Feb 21, 2020
CONTEXT: Prior work using symptom burden to predict emergency department (ED) visits among patients with cancer has used traditional statistical methods such as logistic regression (LR). Machine learning approaches for prediction, such as artificial ...
Journal of pain and symptom management
Jan 9, 2020
CONTEXT: Documentation of care preferences within 48 hours of admission to an intensive care unit (ICU) is a National Quality Forum-endorsed quality metric for older adults. Care preferences are poorly captured by administrative data.
Journal of pain and symptom management
Feb 27, 2018
CONTEXT: Clinicians document cancer patients' symptoms in free-text format within electronic health record visit notes. Although symptoms are critically important to quality of life and often herald clinical status changes, computational methods to a...