While marijuana is by federal law an illegal substance and is considered an illicit drug by the Veterans Health Administration there is a movement to evaluate its use for therapeutic purposes. As a part of a retrospective cohort observational study to develop pain care quality indicators, NLP was used to extract evidence of marijuana use from medical progress notes. We found a total of 12,518 separate mentions of marijuana in the corpus.

Learning Objective: Understand how the use of marijuana is documented in medical progress notes.

Authors:

Dezon Finch (Presenter)
James A Haley Veterans Hospital

Stephen Luther, James A Haley Veterans Hospital

Presentation Materials:

• Abstract/Manuscript - 1