Natural Language Processing for Cohort Discovery in a Discharge Prediction Model for the Neonatal ICU.
Discharging patients from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) can be delayed for non-medical reasons including the procurement of home medical equipment, parental education, and the need for children's services. We previously created a model to identify patients that will be medically ready for discharge in the subsequent 2-10 days. In this study we use Natural Language Processing to improve upon that model and discern why the model performed poorly [...]
Author(s): Temple, Michael W, Lehmann, Christoph U, Fabbri, Daniel
DOI: 10.4338/ACI-2015-09-RA-0114