A natural language processing-assisted review is feasible for surveillance of health care-associated violence (HAV) episodes, according to a study published online July 8 in Pediatrics. Mark Waltzman, M.D., from Boston Children’s Hospital, and colleagues examined the feasibility of using nursing notes to identify underreported HAV episodes by extracting notes across inpatient units at two hospitals for 2019. A workflow for narrative data processing using a natural language processing-assisted manual review process was performed by a nurse and a physician. The models were trained on a pediatric tertiary care center and Read More