Vaping at the VA: Developing an Annotated Corpus of Electronic Cigarette Mentions in Clinical Notes at the Department of Veterans Affairs

Mike Conway; Patrick R Alba; Shu-Hong Zhu; Olga V Patterson

Vaping at the VA: Developing an Annotated Corpus of Electronic Cigarette Mentions in Clinical Notes at the Department of Veterans Affairs

AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2022 Feb 21:2021:343-351. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Mike Conway¹, Patrick R Alba^{2

3}, Shu-Hong Zhu⁴, Olga V Patterson^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.
² Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.
³ VA Salt Lake City Health Care System, Salt Lake City, UT.
⁴ Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health & Human Longevity Science, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA.

PMID: 35308940
PMCID: PMC8861676

Abstract

Use of Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS, colloquially known as "electronic cigarettes") has increased substantially in the United States in the decade since 2010. However, currently relatively little is known regarding the documentation of ENDS use in clinical notes. With this study, we describe the development of an annotation scheme (and associated annotated corpus) consisting of 4,351 ENDS mentions derived from Department of Veterans Affairs clinical notes during the period 2010-2020. Analysis of our corpus provides important insights into ENDS documentation practices at the VA, in addition to providing a resource for the future development and validation of Natural Language Processing algorithms capable of reliably identifying ENDS-use status.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Documentation
Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems*
Humans
Natural Language Processing
United States
Vaping*
Veterans*

Grants and funding

R03 DA047577/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/United States