Identifying Goals of Care Conversations in the Electronic Health Record, Using Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning

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 record (EHR) efficiently.

Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - August 23, 2020 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Robert Y. Lee, Lyndia C. Brumback, William B. Lober, James Sibley, Elizabeth L. Nielsen, Patsy D. Treece, Erin K. Kross, Elizabeth T. Loggers, James A. Fausto, Charlotta Lindvall, Ruth A. Engelberg, J. Randall Curtis Source Type: research