ArticleGeneral hospital psychiatry
Distribution of agitation and related symptoms among hospitalized patients using a scalable natural language processing method.
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- Measuring psychomotor agitation via hand tremor in remitted major depressive disorder.Journal of psychiatric research · 2026Article
- Natural Language Processing Applied to Psychiatric Clinical Notes: Scoping Review.JMIR medical informatics · 2026Article
- Breaking the Cycle: Predicting Agitation Crises in Child and Adolescent Inpatient Psychiatry.Child psychiatry and human development · 2025Article
- Identifying data-driven subtypes of major depressive disorder with electronic health records.Journal of affective disorders · 2024Article
- Natural language processing diagnosed behavioural disturbance phenotypes in the intensive care unit: characteristics, prevalence, trajectory, treatment, and outcomes.Critical care (London, England) · 2023Article
- NANDA nursing diagnoses associated with the occurrence of psychomotor agitation in patients with severe mental disorder: a cross-sectional study.BMC nursing · 2023Article
- Clinical and Sociodemographic Profile of Psychomotor Agitation in Mental Health Hospitalisation: A Multicentre Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Psychosis Relapse Prediction Leveraging Electronic Health Records Data and Natural Language Processing Enrichment Methods.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Year 2020 (with COVID): Observation of Scientific Literature on Clinical Natural Language Processing.Yearbook of medical informatics · 2021Review
- Clinical predictors of repeat intramuscular medication administration for acute agitation: A retrospective cohort study.General hospital psychiatryArticle
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Abstract
backgroundAgitation is a common feature of many neuropsychiatric disorders.
objectiveUnderstanding the prevalence, implications, and characteristics of agitation among hospitalized populations can facilitate more precise recognition of disability arising from neuropsychiatric diseases.
methodsWe developed two agitation phenotypes using an expansion of expert curated term lists. These phenotypes were used to characterize five years of psychiatric admissions. The relationship of agitation symptoms and length of stay was examined.
resultsAmong 4548 psychiatric admissions, 1134 (24.9%) included documentation of agitation based on the primary agitation phenotype. These symptoms were greater among individuals with public insurance, and those with mania and psychosis compared to major depressive disorder. Greater symptoms were associated with longer hospital stay, with ~0.9 day increase in stay for every 10% increase in agitation phenotype.
conclusionAgitation was common at hospital admission and associated with diagnosis and longer length of stay. Characterizing agitation-related symptoms through natural language processing may provide new tools for understanding agitated behaviors and their relationship to delirium.
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