Sunyang Fu, Heling Jia, Maria Vassilaki, Vipina K Keloth, Yifang Dang, Yujia Zhou, Muskan Garg, Ronald C Petersen, Jennifer St Sauver, Sungrim Moon, Liwei Wang, Andrew Wen, Fang Li, Hua Xu, Cui Tao, Jungwei Fan, Hongfang Liu, Sunghwan Sohn
INTRODUCTION: Patients' functional status assesses their independence in performing activities of daily living, encompassing basic ADLs (bADL), and more complex instrumental activities (iADL). Existing studies have discovered that patients' functional status is a strong predictor of health outcomes, particularly in older adults. Much of the functional status information is stored in electronic health records (EHRs) in either semi-structured or free text formats. This underscores the pressing need to leverage computational approaches such as natural language processing (NLP) to accelerate the curation of functional status information...
March 6, 2024: Journal of Biomedical Informatics