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Cannabis Use Documentation within the Electronic Health Record: A Use Case for Natural Language Processing Methods

2026-03-02 addiction medicine Title + abstract only
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IntroductionRecreational and medical cannabis use (CU) information is often available within the electronic health record (EHR) in a format that is impractical for health care provider use. Transformation of free-text EHR documentation in notes to discrete elements is possible using natural language processing (NLP) and has the potential to characterize CU efficiently. The objective of this study was to develop an NLP algorithm to identify documentation of CU within EHR unstructured clinical not...

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