A clinical perspective on the relevance of research domain criteria in electronic health records.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The limitations of the DSM nosology for capturing dimensionality and overlap in psychiatric syndromes, and its poor correspondence to underlying neurobiology, have been well established. The Research Domain Criteria (RDoC), a proposed dimensional model of psychopathology, may offer new insights into psychiatric illness. For psychiatric clinicians, however, because tools for capturing these domains in clinical practice have not yet been established, the relevance and means of transition from the categorical system of DSM-5 to the dimensional models of RDoC remains unclear. The authors explored a method of extracting these dimensions from existing electronic health record (EHR) notes.

Method

The authors used information retrieval and natural language processing metho

SUBMITTER: McCoy TH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9980718 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature