More than 500,000 patients leave US hospitals each year against medical advice (AMA), in the process facing risks for readmission and bad outcomes. Now, add the risk of feeling stigmatized to the list ...

This was a retrospective analysis of 230,325 clinical notes from 5,285 patients treated with radiotherapy from 2007 to 2019. We compared linguistic features among White versus non-White, low-income ...

NEW YORK CITY -- Clinical notes for patients with substance use disorder (SUD) contained stigmatizing language -- such as "junkie," "dirty user," and "this drunk" -- on a regular basis, according to a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Of 2,700 patients with opioid use disorder, stigmatizing language was found in 84.4% of patient records. The ...

Using nationwide electronic health record (EHR) and cancer registry data from the VA Corporate Data Warehouse, we developed and validated a rule-based NLP algorithm to extract oncologist-determined MM ...

The amount of digital data available is greater than ever before, including in health care, where doctors' notes are routinely entered into electronic health record systems. Manually reviewing, ...

While the art of conversation in machines is limited, there are improvements with every iteration. As machines are developed to navigate complex conversations, there will be technical and ethical ...