Vipina K Keloth, Salih Selek, Qingyu Chen, Christopher Gilman, Sunyang Fu, Yifang Dang, Xinghan Chen, Xinyue Hu, Yujia Zhou, Huan He, Jungwei W Fan, Karen Wang, Cynthia Brandt, Cui Tao, Hongfang Liu, Hua Xu
The consistent and persuasive evidence illustrating the influence of social determinants on health has prompted a growing realization throughout the health care sector that enhancing health and health equity will likely depend, at least to some extent, on addressing detrimental social determinants. However, detailed social determinants of health (SDoH) information is often buried within clinical narrative text in electronic health records (EHRs), necessitating natural language processing (NLP) methods to automatically extract these details...
May 22, 2024: medRxiv