Assessment of Natural Language Processing of Electronic Health Records to Measure Goals-of-Care Discussions as a Clinical Trial Outcome

This diagnostic study evaluates the performance, feasibility, and power implications of using natural language processing to measure outcomes in a randomized clinical trial of a communication intervention among adults with serious illness.

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