Results: In patients with insomnia-related diagnosis codes or medications, concepts related to insomnia were highly enriched in narrative notes.
Conclusion: Our results highlight the importance of analyzing narrative notes to understand the scope of conditions such as insomnia that are challenging to study using structured variables alone.
We extracted structured EMR variables (e.g., demographics, billing codes, and medications) and unstructured variables related to insomnia or comorbidities from narrative notes.
We extracted 113 Electronic Medical Record EMRR) structured and unstructured variables including demographics, laboratory values, billing codes, medications, and liver-related concepts from clinical narrative notes.
We extracted 293 EMR variables including demographics, laboratory values and slopes, billing codes, cardiac parameters extracted from narrative electrocardiogram and echocardiographic reports, and medical concepts extracted from physician narrative notes using natural language processing.
His scrapbook narrative notes: "When I returned to Wilton, I cut down a small oak tree for the wood of the handle, staves and rim, and proceeded to make a copy of the basket I had taken the measurements for.
By focusing on Romantic narrative, noted humanist Tilottama Rajan takes issue with this identification, as well as with the equation of narrative itself with the governmental apparatus of the Novel.
The impact of automated de-identification was minimal on the utility of the narrative notes for subsequent information extraction as measured by the sensitivity and precision of medication name extraction.NLP-based de-identification shows excellent performance that rivals the performance of human annotators.
"For this one I just really didn't want a storyline or any real sense of narrative," notes Johnson.
"Liberals in Washington would do well to let go of the Republican breakdown narrative," notes the final sentence, "and pull back to the center--or suffer the consequences".
