| Autor: |
Nazgol Tavabi, Marium Raza, Mallika Singh, Shahriar Golchin, Harsev Singh, Grant D. Hogue, Ata M. Kiapour |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2023 |
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| Zdroj: |
npj Digital Medicine, Vol 6, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2023) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
2398-6352 |
| DOI: |
10.1038/s41746-023-00885-w |
| Popis: |
Abstract The legalizations of medical and recreational cannabis have generated a great deal of interest in studying the health impacts of cannabis products. Despite increases in cannabis use, its documentation during clinical visits is not yet mainstream. This lack of information hampers efforts to study cannabis’s effects on health outcomes. A clear and in-depth understanding of current trends in cannabis use documentation is necessary to develop proper guidelines to screen and document cannabis use. Here we have developed and used a natural language processing pipeline to evaluate the trends and disparities in cannabis documentation. The pipeline includes a screening step to identify clinical notes with cannabis use documentation which is then fed into a BERT-based classifier to confirm positive use. This pipeline is applied to more than 23 million notes from a large cohort of 370,087 patients seen in a high-volume multi-site pediatric and young adult clinic over a period of 21 years. Our findings show a very low but growing rate of cannabis use documentation ( |
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