Medical & biological engineering & computing
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Med Biol Eng Comput · Jul 2018
Classifying clinical notes with pain assessment using machine learning.
Pain is a significant public health problem, affecting millions of people in the USA. Evidence has highlighted that patients with chronic pain often suffer from deficits in pain care quality (PCQ) including pain assessment, treatment, and reassessment. Currently, there is no intelligent and reliable approach to identify PCQ indicators inelectronic health records (EHR). ⋯ We developed a Random forest classifier to identify clinical notes with pain assessment information. Compared to other classifiers, ours achieved the best results in most of the reported metrics. Graphical abstract Framework for detecting pain assessment in clinical notes.