Is Auto-generated Transcript of Patient-Nurse Communication Ready to Use for Identifying the Risk for Hospitalizations or Emergency Department Visits in Home Health Care? A Natural Language Processing Pilot Study

Affiliations

¹ Columbia University School of Nursing, New York, NY.
² Center for Home Care Policy & Research, Visiting Nurse Service of New York, New York, NY.
³ Columbia University, Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, Department of Electrical Engineering, New York, NY.

Jiyoun Song et al. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2023.

. 2023 Apr 29:2022:992-1001.

eCollection 2022.

¹ Columbia University School of Nursing, New York, NY.
² Center for Home Care Policy & Research, Visiting Nurse Service of New York, New York, NY.
³ Columbia University, Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, Department of Electrical Engineering, New York, NY.

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