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Natural Language Processing Analysis of Australian Health Practitioner Disciplinary Tribunal Decisions, 1999-2026

2026-02-17 health policy Title + abstract only
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Natural language processing was applied to 3,586 Australian health practitioner tribunal decisions (1999-2026) to identify patterns in professional misconduct, outcomes, and temporal trends at a scale impractical through manual analysis. A text classification approach categorised 2,428 disciplinary decisions across seven misconduct types with acceptable accuracy for the major categories (per-class F1 0.47-0.82). Boundary violations were the most prevalent misconduct type (30.2%), followed by dis...

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