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ArticleBMC medical informatics and decision making2017

Empirical advances with text mining of electronic health records.

T Delespierre, P Denormandie, A Bar-Hen, L Josseran

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Article in BMC medical informatics and decision making, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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4 authors.

T DelespierreInstitut du Bien Vieillir Korian, 21-25 rue Balzac, 75008, Paris, France. tiba.baroukh@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6433-6959
P DenormandieMNH Group, 185 rue de Bercy, 75012, Paris, France.
A Bar-HenUFR de Mathématiques et Informatique, Université de Paris Descartes, 45 rue des Saints-Pères, Paris, 75006, France.
L JosseranResearch lab: EA 4047, UFR des Sciences de la Santé Simone Veil, UVSQ Université Paris-Saclay, 2 Avenue de la Source de la Bièvre, Montigny le Bretonneux, 78180, France.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundKorian is a private group specializing in medical accommodations for elderly and dependent people. A professional data warehouse (DWH) established in 2010 hosts all of the residents' data. Inside this information system (IS), clinical narratives (CNs) were used only by medical staff as a residents' care linking tool. The objective of this study was to show that, through qualitative and quantitative textual analysis of a relatively small physiotherapy and well-defined CN sample, it was possible to build a physiotherapy corpus and, through this process, generate a new body of knowledge by adding relevant information to describe the residents' care and lives.

methodsMeaningful words were extracted through Standard Query Language (SQL) with the LIKE function and wildcards to perform pattern matching, followed by text mining and a word cloud using R® packages. Another step involved principal components and multiple correspondence analyses, plus clustering on the same residents' sample as well as on other health data using a health model measuring the residents' care level needs.

resultsBy combining these techniques, physiotherapy treatments could be characterized by a list of constructed keywords, and the residents' health characteristics were built. Feeding defects or health outlier groups could be detected, physiotherapy residents' data and their health data were matched, and differences in health situations showed qualitative and quantitative differences in physiotherapy narratives.

conclusionsThis textual experiment using a textual process in two stages showed that text mining and data mining techniques provide convenient tools to improve residents' health and quality of care by adding new, simple, useable data to the electronic health record (EHR). When used with a normalized physiotherapy problem list, text mining through information extraction (IE), named entity recognition (NER) and data mining (DM) can provide a real advantage to describe health care, adding new medical material and helping to integrate the EHR system into the health staff work environment.

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Data MiningElectronic Health RecordsAged, 80 and overFemaleHumansMaleNursing HomesPhysical Therapy ModalitiesQuality of Health CareData miningHierarchical clusteringInformation extractionMultiple component analysisNamed entity recognitionNursing homesPrincipal component analysisSQL queryText miningWord cloud

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PMCPMC5568397

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