The Value of Unstructured Electronic Health Record Data in Geriatric Syndrome Case Identification

Kharrazi, Hadi; Anzaldi, Laura J.; Hernandez, Leilani; Davison, Ashwini; Boyd, Cynthia M.; Leff, Bruce; Kimura, Joe; Weiner, Jonathan P.

doi:10.1111/jgs.15411

The Value of Unstructured Electronic Health Record Data in Geriatric Syndrome Case Identification

Objectives To examine the value of unstructured electronic health record (EHR) data (free-text notes) in identifying a set of geriatric syndromes. Design Retrospective analysis of unstructured EHR notes using a natural language processing (NLP) algorithm. Setting Large multispecialty group. Parti…