Identifying Patient Smoking History for Cessation and Lung Cancer Screening through Mining Electronic Health Records

Conclusion: Machine learning models applied to our Epic EHR consistently identifies smoking history. Creating a tobacco use registry from the EHR is feasible and with advanced algorithms, will help target patients for cancer control efforts, such as smoking cessation and lung cancer screening.

Source: Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention - February 28, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Onega, T., Nutter, E., Sargent, J., Doherty, J., Hassanpour, S. Tags: ASPO 41st Annual Meeting Abstracts Source Type: research