Identifying Late-Stage Cancer and Chronic Kidney Disease Patients for Palliative Care Research and Practice: Computable Phenotypes and Natural Language Processing (S824)

Systematic identification of seriously-ill patients allows palliative care researchers and clinicians to test new models of care delivery. Algorithms based on clinical indicators —including natural language processing—can aid in such identification.

Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - January 23, 2019 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Natalie Ernecoff, Kathryn Wessell, Laura Hanson, Adam Lee, Stacie Dusetzina, Christopher Shea, Morris Weinberger, Antonia Bennett Source Type: research