Sat.Nov 24, 2018 - Fri.Nov 30, 2018

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Deep learning algorithms to identify documentation of serious illness conversations during intensive care unit admissions

SAGE Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care podcast

This episode features Dr Alex Chan (Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA). Routine assessment of many established quality indicators is nearly impossible because the information is embedded as unstructured free text within electronic clinical notes. A key example of this is timely documentation of patient care preferences in critically ill older adults.