Sentiment Measured in Hospital Discharge Notes Is Associated with Readmission and Mortality Risk: An Electronic Health Record Study

Thomas H. McCoy; Victor M. Castro; Andrew Cagan; Ashlee M. Roberson; Isaac S. Kohane; Roy H. Perlis

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0136341

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Sentiment Measured in Hospital Discharge Notes Is Associated with Readmission and Mortality Risk: An Electronic Health Record Study

Thomas H. McCoy,

Affiliation Center for Experimental Drugs and Diagnostics, Department of Psychiatry and Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, 185 Cambridge St, 6th Floor, Boston, MA 02114, United States of America
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Victor M. Castro,

Affiliations Center for Experimental Drugs and Diagnostics, Department of Psychiatry and Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, 185 Cambridge St, 6th Floor, Boston, MA 02114, United States of America, Partners Research Computing, Partners HealthCare System, One Constitution Center, Boston, MA 02129, United States of America
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Andrew Cagan,

Affiliations Center for Experimental Drugs and Diagnostics, Department of Psychiatry and Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, 185 Cambridge St, 6th Floor, Boston, MA 02114, United States of America, Partners Research Computing, Partners HealthCare System, One Constitution Center, Boston, MA 02129, United States of America
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Ashlee M. Roberson,

Affiliation Center for Experimental Drugs and Diagnostics, Department of Psychiatry and Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, 185 Cambridge St, 6th Floor, Boston, MA 02114, United States of America
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Isaac S. Kohane,

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Suite 255, New Research Building, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115, United States of America
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Roy H. Perlis

* E-mail: rperlis@partners.org

Affiliation Center for Experimental Drugs and Diagnostics, Department of Psychiatry and Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, 185 Cambridge St, 6th Floor, Boston, MA 02114, United States of America
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Sentiment Measured in Hospital Discharge Notes Is Associated with Readmission and Mortality Risk: An Electronic Health Record Study

Thomas H. McCoy,
Victor M. Castro,
Andrew Cagan,
Ashlee M. Roberson,
Isaac S. Kohane,
Roy H. Perlis

Published: August 24, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0136341

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