Natural Language Processing to Identify Advance Care Planning Documentation in a Multisite Pragmatic Clinical Trial

Large multisite clinical trials studying decision-making when facing serious illness require an efficient method for abstraction of advance care planning (ACP) documentation from clinical text documents. However, the current gold standard method of manual chart review is time-consuming and unreliable.To evaluate the ability to use natural language processing (NLP) to identify ACP documention in clinical notes from patients participating in a...