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Identifying Patient-Reported Outcome Measure Documentation in Veterans Health Administration Chiropractic Clinic Notes: Natural Language Processing Analysis.

JMIR medical informatics
BACKGROUND: The use of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) is an expected component of high-quality, measurement-based chiropractic care. The largest health care system offering integrated chiropractic care is the Veterans Health Administration...

Improving diagnosis-based quality measures: an application of machine learning to the prediction of substance use disorder among outpatients.

BMJ open quality
OBJECTIVE: Substance use disorder (SUD) is clinically under-detected and under-documented. We built and validated machine learning (ML) models to estimate SUD prevalence from electronic health record (EHR) data and to assess variation in facility-lev...

Identifying opioid relapse during COVID-19 using natural language processing of nationwide Veterans Health Administration electronic medical record data.

Journal of psychopathology and clinical science
Novel and automated means of opioid use and relapse risk detection are needed. Unstructured electronic medical record data, including written progress notes, can be mined for clinically relevant information, including the presence of substance use an...

A deep learning analysis for dual healthcare system users and risk of opioid use disorder.

Scientific reports
The opioid crisis has disproportionately affected U.S. veterans, leading the Veterans Health Administration to implement opioid prescribing guidelines. Veterans who receive care from both VA and non-VA providers-known as dual-system users-have an inc...

De Novo Natural Language Processing Algorithm Accurately Identifies Myxofibrosarcoma From Pathology Reports.

Clinical orthopaedics and related research
BACKGROUND: Available codes in the ICD-10 do not accurately reflect soft tissue sarcoma diagnoses, and this can result in an underrepresentation of soft tissue sarcoma in databases. The National VA Database provides a unique opportunity for soft tiss...

Using Natural Language Processing to develop risk-tier specific suicide prediction models for Veterans Affairs patients.

Journal of psychiatric research
Suicide is a leading cause of death. Suicide rates are particularly elevated among Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) patients. While VA has made impactful suicide prevention advances, efforts primarily target high-risk patients with documented suic...

Using natural language processing to evaluate temporal patterns in suicide risk variation among high-risk Veterans.

Psychiatry research
Measuring suicide risk fluctuation remains difficult, especially for high-suicide risk patients. Our study addressed this issue by leveraging Dynamic Topic Modeling, a natural language processing method that evaluates topic changes over time, to anal...

Artificial intelligence approaches for phenotyping heart failure in U.S. Veterans Health Administration electronic health record.

ESC heart failure
AIMS: Heart failure (HF) is a clinical syndrome with no definitive diagnostic tests. HF registries are often based on manual reviews of medical records of hospitalized HF patients identified using International Classification of Diseases (ICD) codes....

Improvements to PTSD quality metrics with natural language processing.

Journal of evaluation in clinical practice
RATIONALE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: As quality measurement becomes increasingly reliant on the availability of structured electronic medical record (EMR) data, clinicians are asked to perform documentation using tools that facilitate data capture. These t...