Development of a Corpus Annotated with Medications and their Attributes in Psychiatric Health Records

Jaya Chaturvedi, Natalia Viani, Jyoti Sanyal, Chloe Tytherleigh, Idil Hasan, Kate Baird, Sumithra Velupillai, Robert Stewart, Angus Roberts


Abstract
Free text fields within electronic health records (EHRs) contain valuable clinical information which is often missed when conducting research using EHR databases. One such type of information is medications which are not always available in structured fields, especially in mental health records. Most use cases that require medication information also generally require the associated temporal information (e.g. current or past) and attributes (e.g. dose, route, frequency). The purpose of this study is to develop a corpus of medication annotations in mental health records. The aim is to provide a more complete picture behind the mention of medications in the health records, by including additional contextual information around them, and to create a resource for use when developing and evaluating applications for the extraction of medications from EHR text. Thus far, an analysis of temporal information related to medications mentioned in a sample of mental health records has been conducted. The purpose of this analysis was to understand the complexity of medication mentions and their associated temporal information in the free text of EHRs, with a specific focus on the mental health domain.
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2020.lrec-1.247
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Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
Month:
May
Year:
2020
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Marseille, France
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Frédéric Béchet, Philippe Blache, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Hélène Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association
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2009–2016
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English
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Jaya Chaturvedi, Natalia Viani, Jyoti Sanyal, Chloe Tytherleigh, Idil Hasan, Kate Baird, Sumithra Velupillai, Robert Stewart, and Angus Roberts. 2020. Development of a Corpus Annotated with Medications and their Attributes in Psychiatric Health Records. In Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 2009–2016, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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Development of a Corpus Annotated with Medications and their Attributes in Psychiatric Health Records (Chaturvedi et al., LREC 2020)
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