Use of Natural Language Processing to Assess Frequency of Functional Status Documentation for Patients Newly Diagnosed With Colorectal Cancer
Nicole Agaronnik, Charlotta Lindvall, Areej El‐Jawahri, Wei He, Lisa I. Iezzoni
Abstract
This cross-sectional study applies natural language processing to electronic health records from a large health care delivery system to examine performance status documentation among patients newly diagnosed with colorectal cancer.
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MedicineDocumentationColorectal cancerFamily medicineMEDLINECancerInternal medicineProgramming languagePolitical scienceLawComputer scienceChronic Disease Management StrategiesColorectal Cancer Screening and DetectionPalliative Care and End-of-Life Issues