Social Risk Factors are Associated with Risk for Hospitalization in Home Health Care: A Natural Language Processing Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study aimed to develop a natural language processing (NLP) system that identified social risk factors in home health care (HHC) clinical notes and to examine the association between social risk factors and hospitalization or an emergency department (ED) visit.

Design

Retrospective cohort study.

Setting and participants

We used standardized assessments and clinical notes from one HHC agency located in the northeastern United States. This included 86,866 episodes of care for 65,593 unique patients. Patients received HHC services between 2015 and 2017.

Methods

Guided by HHC experts, we created a vocabulary of social risk factors that influence hospitalization or ED visit risk in the HHC setting. We then developed an NLP system to automatically ident

SUBMITTER: Hobensack M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10839109 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature