Journal article
What Happened to Me while I Was in the Hospital? Challenges and Opportunities for Generating Patient-Friendly Hospitalization Summaries
Journal of healthcare informatics research, Vol.3(1), pp.107-123
03/15/2019
DOI: 10.1007/s41666-018-0036-7
PMCID: PMC8982693
PMID: 35415420
Abstract
Comprehending medical information is a challenging task, especially for people who have not received formal medical education. When patients are discharged from the hospital, they are provided with lengthy medical documents that contain intricate terminologies. Studies have shown that if people do not understand the content of their health documents, they will neither look for new information regarding their illness nor will they take actions to prevent or recover from their health issue. In this article, we highlight the need for generating personalized hospital-stay summaries and several research challenges associated with this task. The proposed directions are directly informed by our ongoing work in generating concise and comprehensible hospitalization summaries that are tailored to suit the patient’s understanding of medical terminologies and level of engagement in improving their own health. Our preliminary evaluation shows that our summaries effectively present required medical concepts.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- What Happened to Me while I Was in the Hospital? Challenges and Opportunities for Generating Patient-Friendly Hospitalization Summaries
- Creators
- Sabita Acharya - University of Illinois ChicagoAndrew D. Boyd - 1919 W Taylor St., Chicago, IL 60612 USARichard Cameron - University of Illinois ChicagoKaren Dunn Lopez - University of Illinois ChicagoPamela Martyn-Nemeth - University of Illinois ChicagoCarolyn Dickens - University of Illinois ChicagoAmer Ardati - University of Illinois ChicagoJose D. Flores - 1919 W Taylor St., Chicago, IL 60612 USAMatt Baumann - University of Illinois ChicagoBetty Welland - University of Illinois ChicagoBarbara Di Eugenio - University of Illinois Chicago
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of healthcare informatics research, Vol.3(1), pp.107-123
- DOI
- 10.1007/s41666-018-0036-7
- PMID
- 35415420
- PMCID
- PMC8982693
- NLM abbreviation
- J Healthc Inform Res
- ISSN
- 2509-4971
- eISSN
- 2509-498X
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/15/2019
- Academic Unit
- Nursing
- Record Identifier
- 9984370638902771
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