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Using information from the electronic health record to improve measurement of unemployment in service members and veterans with mTBI and post-deployme

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 SL, McCart JA (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. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0115873