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Automated-detection of risky alcohol use prior to surgery using natural language processing.

V G Vinod VydiswaranAsher StrayhornKatherine WeberHaley StevensJessica MellingerG Scott WinderAnne C Fernandez
Published in: Alcohol, clinical & experimental research (2024)
NLP, an artificial intelligence-based approach, efficiently and accurately identifies alcohol-related risk in patients' EHRs. This approach could supplement other alcohol screening tools to identify patients in need of intervention, treatment, and/or postoperative withdrawal prophylaxis. Alcohol-related ICD diagnosis had limited utility relative to NLP, which extracts richer information within clinical notes to classify patients.
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