Nature Communications (Feb 2022)

Uncovering interpretable potential confounders in electronic medical records

  • Jiaming Zeng,
  • Michael F. Gensheimer,
  • Daniel L. Rubin,
  • Susan Athey,
  • Ross D. Shachter

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28546-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Randomized clinical trials are often plagued by selection bias, and expert-selected covariates may insufficiently adjust for confounding factors. Here, the authors develop a framework based on natural language processing to uncover interpretable potential confounders from text.