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  • Natural Language Processing in Healthcare
  • Health Equity Research

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  • Provider language in medical notes can reflect implicit biases.
  • Race-related disparities in healthcare are a significant concern.
  • Understanding linguistic patterns in emergency medicine notes is crucial for identifying bias.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if the prevalence of stigmatizing language in emergency medicine (EM) encounter notes differs across patient race/ethnicity.
  • To apply natural language processing (NLP) techniques to identify linguistic themes in EM notes.
  • To quantify associations between patient race/ethnicity and the use of stigmatizing or positive language.

Main Methods:

  • Retrospective cohort study of 26,363 EM encounters.
  • Utilized NLP to identify 5 stigmatizing themes (difficult, non-compliant, skepticism, substance abuse/seeking, financial difficulty) and 2 positive themes (compliment, compliant).
  • Logistic regression models analyzed the association between patient race/ethnicity and the presence of identified themes in notes.

Main Results:

  • Non-Hispanic (NH) Black patients' notes were less likely to contain 'difficult,' 'skepticism,' and 'substance abuse/seeking' but more likely to contain 'non-compliant' and 'financial difficulty' compared to NH White patients.
  • Hispanic patients' notes were less likely to contain 'difficult' and 'substance abuse/seeking' themes.
  • Non-Hispanic Native American/Alaska Native (NH NA/AI) patients' notes had double the odds of containing a stigmatizing theme compared to NH White patients.

Conclusions:

  • NLP analysis of EM notes revealed significant inequities in the use of stigmatizing and positive language across racial groups.
  • Identified disparities suggest the presence of race-related implicit bias in medical documentation.
  • Interventions aimed at minimizing race-related implicit bias in clinical language are warranted.