Brett South


2017

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Investigating the Documentation of Electronic Cigarette Use in the Veteran Affairs Electronic Health Record: A Pilot Study
Danielle Mowery | Brett South | Olga Patterson | Shu-Hong Zhu | Mike Conway
BioNLP 2017

In this paper, we present pilot work on characterising the documentation of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) in the United States Veterans Administration Electronic Health Record. The Veterans Health Administration is the largest health care system in the United States with 1,233 health care facilities nationwide, serving 8.9 million veterans per year. We identified a random sample of 2000 Veterans Administration patients, coded as current tobacco users, from 2008 to 2014. Using simple keyword matching techniques combined with qualitative analysis, we investigated the prevalence and distribution of e-cigarette terms in these clinical notes, discovering that for current smokers, 11.9% of patient records contain an e-cigarette related term.

2012

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A Hybrid Stepwise Approach for De-identifying Person Names in Clinical Documents
Oscar Ferrández | Brett South | Shuying Shen | Stéphane Meystre
BioNLP: Proceedings of the 2012 Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing

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A Prototype Tool Set to Support Machine-Assisted Annotation
Brett South | Shuying Shen | Jianwei Leng | Tyler Forbush | Scott DuVall | Wendy Chapman
BioNLP: Proceedings of the 2012 Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing