Natural language processing for adjudication of heart failure in a multicenter clinical trial

JAMA Cardiology

2023-11-11

(Press-News.org) About The Study: This secondary analysis of a randomized clinical trial validated a natural language processing model developed within a single healthcare system to identify heart failure hospitalizations. Further study is needed to determine whether natural language processing will improve the efficiency of future multicenter clinical trials by identifying clinical events at scale.

Authors: Scott D. Solomon, M.D., of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, is the corresponding author.

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(doi:10.1001/jamacardio.2023.4859)

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