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Screening pregnant women for suicidal behavior in electronic medical records: diagnostic codes vs. clinical notes processed by natural language processing

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, May 2018
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Title
Screening pregnant women for suicidal behavior in electronic medical records: diagnostic codes vs. clinical notes processed by natural language processing
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BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, May 2018
DOI 10.1186/s12911-018-0617-7
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Qiu-Yue Zhong, Elizabeth W. Karlson, Bizu Gelaye, Sean Finan, Paul Avillach, Jordan W. Smoller, Tianxi Cai, Michelle A. Williams

Abstract

We examined the comparative performance of structured, diagnostic codes vs. natural language processing (NLP) of unstructured text for screening suicidal behavior among pregnant women in electronic medical records (EMRs). Women aged 10-64 years with at least one diagnostic code related to pregnancy or delivery (N = 275,843) from Partners HealthCare were included as our "datamart." Diagnostic codes related to suicidal behavior were applied to the datamart to screen women for suicidal behavior. Among women without any diagnostic codes related to suicidal behavior (n = 273,410), 5880 women were randomly sampled, of whom 1120 had at least one mention of terms related to suicidal behavior in clinical notes. NLP was then used to process clinical notes for the 1120 women. Chart reviews were performed for subsamples of women. Using diagnostic codes, 196 pregnant women were screened positive for suicidal behavior, among whom 149 (76%) had confirmed suicidal behavior by chart review. Using NLP among those without diagnostic codes, 486 pregnant women were screened positive for suicidal behavior, among whom 146 (30%) had confirmed suicidal behavior by chart review. The use of NLP substantially improves the sensitivity of screening suicidal behavior in EMRs. However, the prevalence of confirmed suicidal behavior was lower among women who did not have diagnostic codes for suicidal behavior but screened positive by NLP. NLP should be used together with diagnostic codes for future EMR-based phenotyping studies for suicidal behavior.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 18 15%
Student > Bachelor 9 8%
Student > Master 8 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 4%
Other 24 21%
Unknown 46 39%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 22 19%
Psychology 10 9%
Computer Science 9 8%
Nursing and Health Professions 6 5%
Engineering 6 5%
Other 15 13%
Unknown 49 42%
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#12
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