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  • Computational linguistics and natural language processing (NLP) applied to clinical text.
  • Health informatics and electronic health record (EHR) data analysis.
  • Psychiatric epidemiology and understanding of postpartum depression (PPD) heterogeneity.

Background:

  • Postpartum depression (PPD) is frequently underdiagnosed, with limited understanding of its clinical variations.
  • Current diagnostic codes in EHRs are insufficient for comprehensive PPD case identification.
  • Novel approaches are needed to improve PPD detection and characterization.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and evaluate a transformer-based NLP method for identifying PPD patients from clinical notes.
  • To analyze demographic and clinical heterogeneity among PPD cases identified via NLP and diagnosis codes.
  • To compare treatment patterns and healthcare utilization across different PPD subgroups.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized clinical notes from over 64,000 patients who gave birth between 2010-2023.
  • Developed an NLP model to detect PPD indicators in clinical notes, augmented with ICD-9/10 codes.
  • Compared demographics, comorbidities (mental health, SUDs), treatments, and healthcare utilization across PPD subgroups (ICD-only, NLP-only, BOTH) and controls.

Main Results:

  • The NLP method identified an additional 29.6% of PPD cases not captured by ICD codes alone.
  • Significant variations in comorbidities, substance use disorders (SUDs), and treatment patterns were observed among PPD subgroups.
  • The PPD-BOTH subgroup showed higher rates of anxiety, antidepressant prescriptions, and mental health visits, indicating greater severity.

Conclusions:

  • Combining NLP with ICD codes enhances PPD case detection and reveals distinct patient profiles, improving understanding of heterogeneity.
  • This NLP approach offers a promising tool for identifying underdiagnosed PPD cases in healthcare settings.
  • The findings support earlier, more personalized interventions for PPD by enabling comprehensive case identification and characterization.