Journal of pain and symptom management
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J Pain Symptom Manage · Jan 2022
Multicenter Study Pragmatic Clinical TrialNatural Language Processing to Identify Advance Care Planning Documentation in a Multisite Pragmatic Clinical Trial.
Large multisite clinical trials studying decision-making when facing serious illness require an efficient method for abstraction of advance care planning (ACP) documentation from clinical text documents. However, the current gold standard method of manual chart review is time-consuming and unreliable. ⋯ NLP is more efficient and as accurate as manual chart review for identifying ACP documentation in studies with large patient cohorts.