Extracting Critical Information from Unstructured Clinicians’ Notes Data to Identify Dementia Severity Using a Rule-Based Approach: Feasibility Study

Ravi Prakash   ¹ , MS ;   Matthew E Dupre   ^{2, 3} , PhD ;   Truls Østbye   ^{2, 4} , MPH, MD ;   Hanzhang Xu   ^{4, 5, 6, 7} , PhD, RN

¹ Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States

² Department of Population Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States

³ Department of Sociology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States

⁴ Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, School of Medicine, Duke Univeristy, Durham, NC, United States

⁵ School of Nursing, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States

⁶ Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States

⁷ Health Services and Systems Research (HSSR), Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore