Clinical Relevance of Pharmacist Intervention: Development of a Named Entity Recognition Model on Unstructured Comments

Stud Health Technol Inform. 2021 May 27:281:492-493. doi: 10.3233/SHTI210210.

Abstract

We developed a clinical named entity recognition model to predict clinical relevance of pharmacist interventions (PIs) by identifying and labelling expressions from unstructured comments of PIs. Three labels, drug, kidney and dosage, had a great inter-annotator agreement (>60%) and could be used as reference labelization. These labels also showed a high precision (>70%) and a variable recall (50-90 %).

Keywords: Natural Language Processing; clinical NER; clinical pharmacy; drug-related problem.

MeSH terms

  • Humans
  • Natural Language Processing*
  • Pharmacists*