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Identifying Heart Failure Symptoms and Poor Self-Management in Home Healthcare: A Natural Language Processing Study
Sena Chae1, Jiyoun Song2, Marietta Ojo3
1University of Iowa College of Nursing.
Abstract:
The goal of this natural language processing (NLP) study was to identify patients in home healthcare with heart failure symptoms and poor self-management (SM). The preliminary lists of symptoms and poor SM status were identified, NLP algorithms were used to refine the lists, and NLP performance was evaluated using 2.3 million home healthcare clinical notes. The overall precision to identify patients with heart failure symptoms and poor SM status was 0.86. The feasibility of methods was demonstrated to identify patients with heart failure symptoms and poor SM documented in home healthcare notes. This study facilitates utilizing key symptom information and patients' SM status from unstructured data in electronic health records. The results of this study can be applied to better individualize symptom management to support heart failure patients' quality-of-life.
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