Melvin Livingston

Applying Natural Language Processing to Address Healthcare Bias: Using CARE-SD to Evaluate the Distribution of Stigmatizing Language in Clinical Notes

Electronic health records (EHRs) are a critical medium through which patient stigmatization is perpetuated among healthcare teams. We identified doubt markers and stigmatizing labels in MIMIC-III, a de-identified EHR, via expanded lexicon matching and machine learning classifiers...