Simplified data science approach to extract social and behavioural determinants: a retrospective chart review.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

We aim to extract a subset of social factors from clinical notes using common text classification methods.

Design

Retrospective chart review.

Setting

We collaborated with a local level I trauma hospital located in an underserved area that has a housing unstable patient population of about 6.5% and extracted text notes related to various social determinants for acute care patients.

Participants

Notes were retrospectively extracted from 43 798 acute care patients.

Methods

We solely use open source Python packages to test simple text classification methods that can potentially be easily generalisable and implemented. We extracted social history text from various sources, such as admission and emergency department notes, over a 5-year timeframe an

SUBMITTER: Teng A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8768909 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature