Predicting early psychiatric readmission with natural language processing of narrative discharge summaries.

ABSTRACT: The ability to predict psychiatric readmission would facilitate the development of interventions to reduce this risk, a major driver of psychiatric health-care costs. The symptoms or characteristics of illness course necessary to develop reliable predictors are not available in coded billing data, but may be present in narrative electronic health record (EHR) discharge summaries. We identified a cohort of individuals admitted to a psychiatric inpatient unit between 1994 and 2012 with a principal diagnosis of major depressive disorder, and extracted inpatient psychiatric discharge narrative notes. Using these data, we trained a 75-topic Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) model, a form of natural language processing, which identifies groups of words associated with topics discussed in a docum

SUBMITTER: Rumshisky A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5315537 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature