Extracting Adherence Information from Electronic Health Records

Jordan Sanders, Meghana Gudala, Kathleen Hamilton, Nishtha Prasad, Jordan Stovall, Eduardo Blanco, Jane E. Hamilton, Kirk Roberts

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Abstract

Patient adherence is a critical factor in health outcomes. We present a framework to extract adherence information from electronic health records, including both sentence-level information indicating general adherence information (full, partial, none, etc.) and span-level information providing additional information such as adherence type (medication or nonmedication), reasons and outcomes. We annotate and make publicly available a new corpus of 3,000 de-identified sentences, and discuss the language physicians use to document adherence information. We also explore models based on state-of-the-art transformers to automate both tasks.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationCOLING 2020 - 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference
EditorsDonia Scott, Nuria Bel, Chengqing Zong
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages680-695
Number of pages16
ISBN (Electronic)9781952148279
StatePublished - 2020
Externally publishedYes
Event28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2020 - Virtual, Online, Spain
Duration: Dec 8 2020Dec 13 2020

Publication series

NameCOLING 2020 - 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Conference

Conference28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING 2020
Country/TerritorySpain
CityVirtual, Online
Period12/8/2012/13/20

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Science Applications
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Theoretical Computer Science

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