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Using Natural Language Processing of Clinical Notes to Supplement Structured Electronic Health Record Data for Phenotyping Smoking and Obesity in a Healthcare System

2026-01-21 health informatics Title + abstract only
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PurposeStudies based on electronic health records (EHR) often rely on structured data, which may incompletely capture important clinical phenotypes in EHR notes. The purpose of this study was to assess two natural language processing (NLP) tools to extract phenotypes from unstructured EHR notes, and to evaluate the added value of integrating NLP-derived phenotypes with structured EHR data at a health system scale. MethodsThis retrospective study is based on inpatient and outpatient EHR data fro...

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