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ArticleJournal of medical Internet research2017

Recommending Education Materials for Diabetic Questions Using Information Retrieval Approaches.

Yuqun Zeng, Xusheng Liu, Yanshan Wang, Feichen Shen, Sijia Liu, Majid Rastegar-Mojarad, Liwei Wang, Hongfang Liu

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Yuqun Zeng *The Second Clinical College, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China.ORCID 0000-0003-3402-1953
Xusheng Liu *The Second Clinical College, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China.ORCID 0000-0002-7521-851X
Yanshan WangDepartment of Health Sciences Research, Mayo College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-4433-7839
Feichen ShenDepartment of Health Sciences Research, Mayo College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-7803-2331
Sijia LiuDepartment of Health Sciences Research, Mayo College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-9763-1164
Majid Rastegar-MojaradDepartment of Health Sciences Research, Mayo College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-6962-3554
Liwei WangDepartment of Health Sciences Research, Mayo College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-6985-9698
Hongfang LiuDepartment of Health Sciences Research, Mayo College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-2570-3741

Funding

Semi-structured Information Retrieval in Clinical Text for Cohort IdentificationR01LM011934 · NLM · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI HERSH, WILLIAM R, LIU, HONGFANG · 2014 to 2025
$5.1M
Secondary use of EMRs for surgical complication surveillanceR01EB019403 · NIBIB · MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER · PI LIU, HONGFANG, STORLIE, CURTIS · 2015 to 2022
$3.8M
NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB019403NLM NIH HHS R01 LM011934
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Abstract

backgroundSelf-management is crucial to diabetes care and providing expert-vetted content for answering patients' questions is crucial in facilitating patient self-management.

objectiveThe aim is to investigate the use of information retrieval techniques in recommending patient education materials for diabetic questions of patients.

methodsWe compared two retrieval algorithms, one based on Latent Dirichlet Allocation topic modeling (topic modeling-based model) and one based on semantic group (semantic group-based model), with the baseline retrieval models, vector space model (VSM), in recommending diabetic patient education materials to diabetic questions posted on the TuDiabetes forum. The evaluation was based on a gold standard dataset consisting of 50 randomly selected diabetic questions where the relevancy of diabetic education materials to the questions was manually assigned by two experts. The performance was assessed using precision of top-ranked documents.

resultsWe retrieved 7510 diabetic questions on the forum and 144 diabetic patient educational materials from the patient education database at Mayo Clinic. The mapping rate of words in each corpus mapped to the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) was significantly different (P<.001). The topic modeling-based model outperformed the other retrieval algorithms. For example, for the top-retrieved document, the precision of the topic modeling-based, semantic group-based, and VSM models was 67.0%, 62.8%, and 54.3%, respectively.

conclusionsThis study demonstrated that topic modeling can mitigate the vocabulary difference and it achieved the best performance in recommending education materials for answering patients' questions. One direction for future work is to assess the generalizability of our findings and to extend our study to other disease areas, other patient education material resources, and online forums.

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Databases, FactualDiabetes MellitusHumansInformation Storage and RetrievalPatient Education as TopicSurveys and Questionnaireseducation materialsinformation retrievalpatientsquestionsrecommendation

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