The Use of Natural Language Processing to Assess Social Support in Patients With Advanced Cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Data examining associations among social support, survival, and healthcare utilization are lacking in patients with advanced cancer.

Methods

We conducted a cross-sectional secondary analysis using data from a prospective longitudinal cohort study of 966 hospitalized patients with advanced cancer at Massachusetts General Hospital from 2014 through 2017. We used NLP to identify extent of patients' social support (limited versus adequate as defined by NLP-aided review of the Electronic Health Record (EHR)). Two independent coders achieved a Kappa of 0.90 (95% CI: 0.84-1.00) using NLP. Using multivariable regression models, we examined associations of social support with: 1) OS; 2) death or readmission within 90 days of hospital discharge; 3) time to readmission withi

SUBMITTER: Bhatt S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9907037 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature