Machine Learning Methods to Extract Documentation of Breast Cancer Symptoms from Electronic Health Records

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 assess the trajectory of symptoms over time are woefully underdeveloped.

Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - February 26, 2018 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Alexander W. Forsyth, Regina Barzilay, Kevin S. Hughes, Dickson Lui, Karl A. Lorenz, Andrea Enzinger, James A. Tulsky, Charlotta Lindvall Source Type: research