Extracting Detailed Tobacco Exposure From The Electronic Health Record

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death in the United States and worldwide. Natural language processing (NLP) tools exist to determine smoking status (ever-smoker vs. never-smoker) from electronic health record data, but no system to date extracts detailed smoking data needed to ass...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Osterman, Travis John
Other Authors: Josh Denny, M.D., M.S.
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: VANDERBILT 2017
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Online Access:http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-07142017-193150/