Description
The purpose of this study was to identify how frequently heart failure patients use nursing terminologies to describe their health. To create Concept Unique Identifiers, interview transcripts were processed using the Clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System and matched to health-related terms from the Unified Medical Language System ontology. One-third of the health-related terms that patients used mapped to nursing terms. Findings suggest nursing documentation should be incorporated in the EHR for better communication.
Learning Objective: The purpose of this study was to identify how often hospitalized patients with heart failure (HF) use terms that can be mapped to nursing terminologies, or their synonyms, when they describe their experiences with HF and health concerns.
Authors:
Haleh Vatani (Presenter)
University of Illinois, Chicago
Karen Dunn Lopez, University of Illinois, Chicago
Andrew Boyd, University of Illinois, Chicago
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