Classification of the Disposition of Patients Hospitalized with COVID-19: Reading Discharge Summaries Using Natural Language Processing
JMIR Medical Informatics2020Vol. 9(2), pp. e25457–e25457
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Marta Fernandes, Haoqi Sun, Aayushee Jain, Haitham Alabsi, Laura Brenner, Elissa Ye, Wendong Ge, Sarah Isabel Collens, Michael J. Leone, Sudeshna Das, Gregory K. Robbins, Shibani S. Mukerji, M. Brandon Westover
Abstract
A supervised learning-based NLP approach is able to classify the discharge disposition of patients hospitalized with COVID-19. This approach has the potential to accelerate and increase the scale of research on patients' discharge disposition that is possible with EHR data.