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SUBMITTER: Pakhomov SV
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3243229 | biostudies-literature | 2011
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pakhomov Serguei V S SV Shah Nilay D ND Van Houten Holly K HK Hanson Penny L PL Smith Steven A SA
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium 20111022
We applied a hybrid Natural Language Processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML) approach (NLP-ML) to assessment of health related quality of life (HRQOL). The approach uses text patterns extracted from HRQOL inventories and electronic medical records (EMR) as predictive features for training ML classifiers. On a cohort of 200 patients, our approach agreed with patient self-report (EQ5D) and manual audit of the EMR 65-74% of the time. In an independent cohort of 285 patients, we found no associat ...[more]