Considering the increasing burden and serious consequences of frailty in aging
populations, there is increasing interest in measuring frailty in health care databases for …

Objectives To examine the value of unstructured electronic health record (EHR) data (free‐
text notes) in identifying a set of geriatric syndromes. Design Retrospective analysis of …

People with disabilities disproportionately experience negative health outcomes. Purposeful
analysis of information on all aspects of the experience of disability across individuals and …

Introduction Research has shown that frailty, a geriatric syndrome associated with an
increased risk of negative outcomes for older people, is highly prevalent among residents of …

Aims Psychosocial factors are rarely collected in studies investigating the prognosis of
patients with heart failure (HF), and only time to first event is commonly reported. We …

Background Dementia is underdiagnosed in both the general population and among
Veterans. This underdiagnosis decreases quality of life, reduces opportunities for …

Normalization of clinical text involves linking different ways of talking about the same clinical
concept to the same term in the standardized vocabulary. To date, very few annotated …

Background Geriatric syndromes, including frailty, are common in older adults and
associated with adverse outcomes. We compared patients described in clinical notes as …

Objective Medical concept normalization (MCN), the task of linking textual mentions to
concepts in an ontology, provides a solution to unify different ways of referring to the same …

Understanding patients' degree of frailty is crucial for tailoring clinical care for older adults
based on their physiologic reserve and health needs (“frailty‐guided clinical care”). Two …