Identifying Mentions of Life Stressors in Clinical Notes

Shreya Datar; Elizabeth A. Lindemann; Greg Silverman; Reed McEwan; Raymond Finzel; Michael Kotlyar; Genevieve B. Melton; Serguei V.S. Pakhomov

doi:10.1109/ICHI52183.2021.00033

Identifying Mentions of Life Stressors in Clinical Notes

Shreya Datar, Elizabeth A. Lindemann, Greg Silverman, Reed McEwan, Raymond Finzel, Michael Kotlyar, Genevieve B. Melton, Serguei V.S. Pakhomov

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Abstract

The impact of social determinants on individual health has increasingly been recognized. In this study, we aimed to understand the representation of stressful life events occurring in clinical reports generated outside of mental health specialties. We present a conceptual schema for the representation of stressful events and associated linguistic attributes within free-text clinical notes. We also evaluated existing 'off-the-shelf' clinical Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems for the detection of stress related concepts in clinical notes. We found that mentions of stressful events are prevalent even in non-mental health specialties, and that capturing details of stress mentions is challenging. Our results further indicate that existing NLP systems can serve as a reasonable starting point for developing models trained specifically for extracting stress associated information from clinical narratives.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 2021 IEEE 9th International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, ISCHI 2021
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	153-160
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	9781665401326
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICHI52183.2021.00033
State	Published - Aug 2021
Event	9th IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, ISCHI 2021 - Virtual, Victoria, Canada Duration: Aug 9 2021 → Aug 12 2021

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Name	Proceedings - 2021 IEEE 9th International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, ISCHI 2021

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Conference	9th IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, ISCHI 2021
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Virtual, Victoria
Period	8/9/21 → 8/12/21

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT This work was funded in part by the National Institute of Health’s National Center for Advancing Translation Science U01TR002062 and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality R01HS024532.

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© 2021 IEEE.

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Informatics
Knowledge representation
Medical information systems
Text mining

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Datar, S., Lindemann, E. A., Silverman, G., McEwan, R., Finzel, R., Kotlyar, M., Melton, G. B., & Pakhomov, S. V. S. (2021). Identifying Mentions of Life Stressors in Clinical Notes. In Proceedings - 2021 IEEE 9th International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, ISCHI 2021 (pp. 153-160). (Proceedings - 2021 IEEE 9th International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, ISCHI 2021). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICHI52183.2021.00033

Identifying Mentions of Life Stressors in Clinical Notes. / Datar, Shreya; Lindemann, Elizabeth A.; Silverman, Greg et al.
Proceedings - 2021 IEEE 9th International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, ISCHI 2021. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2021. p. 153-160 (Proceedings - 2021 IEEE 9th International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, ISCHI 2021).

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Datar, S, Lindemann, EA, Silverman, G, McEwan, R, Finzel, R, Kotlyar, M , Melton, GB & Pakhomov, SVS 2021, Identifying Mentions of Life Stressors in Clinical Notes. in Proceedings - 2021 IEEE 9th International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, ISCHI 2021. Proceedings - 2021 IEEE 9th International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, ISCHI 2021, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 153-160, 9th IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, ISCHI 2021, Virtual, Victoria, Canada, 8/9/21. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICHI52183.2021.00033

Datar S, Lindemann EA, Silverman G, McEwan R, Finzel R, Kotlyar M et al. Identifying Mentions of Life Stressors in Clinical Notes. In Proceedings - 2021 IEEE 9th International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, ISCHI 2021. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2021. p. 153-160. (Proceedings - 2021 IEEE 9th International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, ISCHI 2021). doi: 10.1109/ICHI52183.2021.00033

Datar, Shreya ; Lindemann, Elizabeth A. ; Silverman, Greg et al. / Identifying Mentions of Life Stressors in Clinical Notes. Proceedings - 2021 IEEE 9th International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, ISCHI 2021. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2021. pp. 153-160 (Proceedings - 2021 IEEE 9th International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, ISCHI 2021).

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