Building a tobacco user registry by extracting multiple smoking behaviors from clinical notes.
Ellen L PalmerSaeed HassanpourJohn HigginsJennifer A DohertyTracy OnegaPublished in: BMC medical informatics and decision making (2019)
Our work indicates that the development of an EHR-based Smokers' Registry containing information relating to smoking behaviors, not just status, from free-text clinical notes using an informatics pipeline is feasible. This pipeline is capable of functioning in external EHRs, reducing the amount of time and money needed at the institute-level to create a Smokers' Registry for improved identification of patient risk and eligibility for preventative and early detection services.