Extracting Pain Care Quality Indicators from U.S. Veterans Health Administration Chiropractic Care Using Natural Language Processing.
Musculoskeletal pain is common in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), and there is growing national use of chiropractic services within the VHA. Rapid expansion requires scalable and autonomous solutions, such as natural language processing (NLP), to monitor care quality. Previous work has defined indicators of pain care quality that represent essential elements of guideline-concordant, comprehensive pain assessment, treatment planning, and reassessment.
Author(s): C Coleman, Brian, Finch, Dezon, Wang, Rixin, L Luther, Stephen, Heapy, Alicia, Brandt, Cynthia, J Lisi, Anthony
DOI: 10.1055/a-2091-1162