A Systematic Framework for Analyzing Patient-Generated Narrative Data: Protocol for a Content Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patient narrative data in online health care forums (communities) are receiving increasing attention from the scientific community for implementing patient-centered care. Natural language processing (NLP) methods are gaining more and more attention because of the enormous data volume. However, state-of-the-art NLP still cannot meet the need of high-resolution analysis of patients' narratives. Manual qualitative analysis still plays a pivotal role in answering complicated research questions from analyzing patient narratives.

Objective

This study aimed to develop a systematic framework for qualitative analysis of patient-generated narratives in online health care forums.

Methods

Our systematic framework consists of 4 phases: (1) data collection, (2) data prep

SUBMITTER: Zolnoori M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6786846 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature