Using information from the electronic health record to improve measurement of unemployment in service members and veterans with mTBI and post-deployme
Keywords:
electronic health record (EHR), traumatic brain injury (TBI), veterans, return to work
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Abstract
The purpose of this pilot study is 1) to develop an annotation schema and a training set of annotated notes to support the future development of a natural language processing (NLP) system to automatically extract employment information, and 2) to determine if information about employment status, goals and work-related challenges reported by service members and Veterans with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) and post-deployment stress can be identified in the Electronic Health Record (EHR).
Citation
Dillahunt-Aspillaga, C., Finch, D., Massengale, J., Kretzmer, T., Luther, S. L., & McCart, J. A. (2014). Using information from the electronic health record to improve measurement of unemployment in service members and veterans with mTBI and post-deployment stress. PLoS One, 9(12), e115873. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0115873.