Predicting the target specialty of referral notes to estimate per-specialty wait times with machine learning

<h4>Background</h4> Currently, in Canada, existing health administrative data and hospital-inputted portal systems are used to measure the wait times to receiving a procedure or therapy after a specialist visit. However, due to missing and inconsistent labelling, estimating the wait time...

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Main Authors: Mohamed Abdalla, Hong Lu, Bogdan Pinzaru, Frank Rudzicz, Liisa Jaakkimainen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9098074/?tool=EBI