Description
This study identified the availability of cancer pain research related data from the Veterans Affairs (VA) electronic health record (EHR). Two VA nurses independently reviewed 68 concepts and 50 scales indentified in cancer pain literature and recorded where and how it is documented in the EHR. Approximately, 80% of the seen concepts are documented in unstructured free text. Techniques such as natural language processing are required to use EHR data for cancer pain research.
Learning Objective: To identify the availability of cancer pain research related data from the electronic health record data.
Authors:
Christina Radloff, University of Utah
Jia-Wen Guo (Presenter)
University of Utah
Katherine Sward, University of Utah
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