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. 2023 Apr 1;30(8):1389–1397. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocad073

Table 5.

Proportions of unique patients with current SDOH found only in structured data, only by NLP extraction, or in both

All patients (N = 618K)
Patients with social history text (N = 225K)
SDOH source
SDOH source
SDOH # Patients with SDOH info Struct. NLP Both # Patients with SDOH info Struct. NLP Both
Alcohol (current) 148 221 87% 5% 8% 106 658 82% 7% 11%
Tobacco (current) 34 871 69% 19% 12% 25 675 56% 26% 17%
Drug (current) 42 309 86% 10% 5% 31 222 81% 13% 6%
Employment (any status) 575 278 88% 1% 11% 200 926 66% 4% 30%
Living Status (homeless) 11 567 64% 32% 4% 9390 55% 39% 5%

Note: For purposes of comparison, in the right-most three columns, we further limit structured data to only patients who had social history narrative text as well.