Harnessing Natural Language Processing to Assess Quality of End-of-Life Care for Children With Cancer
Lindsay M, de Oliveira S, Sciacca K, Lindvall C, Ananth P. Harnessing Natural Language Processing to Assess Quality of End-of-Life Care for Children With Cancer. JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics 2024, 8: e2400134. PMID: 39265122, PMCID: PMC11407740, DOI: 10.1200/cci.24.00134.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsEnd-of-life carePalliative care consultationGoals of careLocation of deathProportion of decedentsDocumented discussionCare consultationEvidence-based quality measuresMeasure quality of careGold standard manual chart reviewQuality measuresQuality of careEnd of lifeContent of clinical notesLife-sustaining treatmentEnd-of-lifeManual chart reviewCancer decedentsEfficient quality measureCohort of childrenAssess qualityMulti-center researchQuality improvementMeasure qualityCareParent-Clinician Communication and Prolonged Grief in Parents Whose Child Died from Cancer
Ouyang N, Baker J, Ananth P, Knobf M, Snaman J, Feder S. Parent-Clinician Communication and Prolonged Grief in Parents Whose Child Died from Cancer. Journal Of Pain And Symptom Management 2024 PMID: 39142495, DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2024.08.003.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchEnd-of-lifeParent-clinician communicationProlonged grief symptomsGrief symptomsChild's end-of-lifeCross-sectional survey of parents of childrenEnd-of-life careHigh-quality end-of-lifeProlonged griefSum scoreSurvey of parents of childrenCross-sectional surveyParents of childrenAdequate prognostic informationBereaved parentsPrognostic informationChild deathsParents' experiencesMultiple linear regressionPG-13Analyzed dataLinear regressionAssociationGriefChildrenQuality of Care in the Last Two Years of Life for Children with Complex Chronic Conditions
Bogetz J, Strub B, Bradford M, McGalliard J, Shipman K, Jeyte A, Patneaude A, Johnston E, Ananth P, Thienprayoon R, Rosenberg A. Quality of Care in the Last Two Years of Life for Children with Complex Chronic Conditions. Journal Of Pain And Symptom Management 2024 PMID: 39097243, DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2024.07.034.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchComplex chronic conditionsEnd-of-life quality measuresEnd-of-lifeChronic conditionsHealthcare servicesQuality EOL careQuality measuresQuality of careICD-10 diagnosis codesEvaluate demographic differencesU.S. children's hospitalsYears of lifeEOL careDied in-hospitalInterprofessional supportSymptom managementHealthcare utilizationHospital performanceMedication intensityNon-HispanicDiagnosis codesDescriptive statisticsCardiopulmonary resuscitationChildren's hospitalPublic insuranceA Natural Language Processing Study to Assess Quality of End-of-Life Care for Children with Cancer (RP215)
Lindsay M, De Oliveira S, Ward D, Sciacca K, Lindvall C, Ananth P. A Natural Language Processing Study to Assess Quality of End-of-Life Care for Children with Cancer (RP215). Journal Of Pain And Symptom Management 2024, 67: e763. DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2024.02.425.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchEnd-of-life careGoals of care discussionsEnd-of-lifePalliative care consultationLocation of deathProportion of decedentsNatural language processingCode status limitationsCancer decedentsHospice discussionCare discussionsCare consultationDocumented goals of care discussionsEnd-of-life care qualityEvidence-based process measuresKeyword libraryLanguage processingElectronic health recordsManual chart abstractionMonths of lifeQuality measuresRule-based natural language processingCare qualityNatural language processing technologyNatural language processing studiesTransforming Written and Spoken Words into Quantitative Data for Palliative Care Research Using Natural Language Processing (ME301)
Lindvall C, Walling A, Ananth P. Transforming Written and Spoken Words into Quantitative Data for Palliative Care Research Using Natural Language Processing (ME301). Journal Of Pain And Symptom Management 2024, 67: e847-e848. DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2024.02.491.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchGoals of care conversationsPay-for-performance programsPay-for-performanceChart abstractionCare conversationsElectronic health record dataQuality improvementPalliative care deliveryAssess care qualityCare process measuresAdvanced cancerHealth record dataElectronic health recordsManual chart abstractionEnd-of-lifeManual chart reviewUS healthcare systemIllness careCare qualityNatural language processingCare deliveryAudio-recorded conversationsHealth recordsSocial supportIllness researchDefining the Denominator for Measuring Quality of End-of-Life Care in Children with Cancer: Results of a Nominal Group Technique
Johnston E, Tefera R, Ananth P, Martinez I, Porter A, Snaman J, Thienprayoon R, Asch S, Bhatia S, O'Beirne R. Defining the Denominator for Measuring Quality of End-of-Life Care in Children with Cancer: Results of a Nominal Group Technique. The Journal Of Pediatrics 2024, 271: 114038. PMID: 38554745, DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2024.114038.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchEnd-of-lifePoor-prognosis cancerEnd-of-life quality measuresQuality of EOL careQuality measuresPediatric oncologyPediatric palliative carePediatric quality measuresPrognosis cancersNon-Hispanic whitesNominal groupsSpecific treatment scenarioNominal group techniqueEOL carePalliative careSeventy-nine percentBereaved parentsMeasure qualityClinical programsEnhance qualityGroup techniqueGroup of childrenCareParticipantsClinician-scientists