A natural language processing approach to categorise contributing factors from patient safety event reports.

https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/natural-language-processing-approach-categorise-contributing-factors-patient-safety-event Analyzing patient safety incident reports is essential to organizational learning, but comes with both a time and financial burden. This study found that natural language processing can be used to process unstructured patient safety event reports and reduce the burden of manually identifying and extracting factors contributing to the event.