NEW YORK CITY -- Clinical notes for patients with substance use disorder (SUD) contained stigmatizing language -- such as "junkie," "dirty user," and "this drunk" -- on a regular basis, according to a ...

This was a retrospective analysis of 230,325 clinical notes from 5,285 patients treated with radiotherapy from 2007 to 2019. We compared linguistic features among White versus non-White, low-income ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Of 2,700 patients with opioid use disorder, stigmatizing language was found in 84.4% of patient records. The ...

The amount of digital data available is greater than ever before, including in health care, where doctors' notes are routinely entered into electronic health record systems. Manually reviewing, ...

Using nationwide electronic health record (EHR) and cancer registry data from the VA Corporate Data Warehouse, we developed and validated a rule-based NLP algorithm to extract oncologist-determined MM ...

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When health care providers enter notes into patients’ electronic health records, they are more likely to portray Black patients negatively compared with white patients, two recent studies have found.