Using Natural Language Processing to Predict Fatal Drug Overdose From Autopsy Narrative Text: Algorithm Development and Validation Study

• Main Authors: Leigh Anne Tang (Author), Jessica Korona-Bailey (Author), Dimitrios Zaras (Author), Allison Roberts (Author), Sutapa Mukhopadhyay (Author), Stephen Espy (Author), Colin G Walsh (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: JMIR Publications, 2023-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BackgroundFatal drug overdose surveillance informs prevention but is often delayed because of autopsy report processing and death certificate coding. Autopsy reports contain narrative text describing scene evidence and medical history (similar to preliminary death scene investigation reports) and ma...