UMMS Affiliation
Department of Quantitative Health Sciences
Publication Date
2018-04-16
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Disciplines
Artificial Intelligence and Robotics | Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms | Health Information Technology | Health Services Research | Library and Information Science | Substance Abuse and Addiction
Abstract
The United States is in the midst of a prescription opioid epidemic, with the number of yearly opioid-related overdose deaths increasing almost fourfold since 2000(1). To more effectively prevent unintentional opioid overdoses, the medical profession requires robust surveillance tools that can effectively identify at-risk patients. Drug-related aberrant behaviors observed in the clinical context may be important indicators of patients at risk for or actively abusing opioids. In this paper, we describe a natural language processing (NLP) method for automatic surveillance of aberrant behavior in medical notes relying only on the text of the notes. This allows for a robust and generalizable system that can be used for high volume analysis of electronic medical records for potential predictors of opioid abuse.
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Copyright ©2017 AMIA - All rights reserved. This is an Open Access article: verbatim copying and redistribution of this article are permitted in all media for any purpose.
Source
AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2018 Apr 16;2017:1179-1185. eCollection 2017.
Journal/Book/Conference Title
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Related Resources
PubMed ID
29854186
Repository Citation
Lingeman, Jesse M.; Wang, Priscilla; Becker, William; and Yu, Hong, "Detecting Opioid-Related Aberrant Behavior using Natural Language Processing" (2018). Open Access Articles. 3449.
https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/oapubs/3449
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