Table 2.

Topics generated from vital sign comments^a.

Label for group and topic		Most relevant words	Topic distribution (probability)		Group distribution (probability)
Notification				0.347
	T1	notify, rnb, nurse, lie, standing, manually, informed, <NAME>, trach, <NAME>	0.106
	T3	nurse, notify, call, high, pressure, heat, primary, hfovc, report, warmer	0.090
	T9	notify, rn, nurse, elevated, <NAME>, abnormal, supine, <NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>	0.076
	T6	notif, team, mdd, bedside, notifed, order, ccte, page, monitor, npf	0.075
Context				0.307
	T13	room, air	0.092
	T4	arm, ptg, nch, blanket, place, warm, apply, hugger, bair, baby	0.080
	T12	post, bath, tempi, stand, sit, minj, provider, eoik, inform, care	0.075
	T7	patient, give, sleeping, tylenol, pain, med, state, liter, due, floor	0.060
Unable to obtain				0.224
	T8	patient, uto, fussy, move, crying, kicking, agitate, screaming, unit, moving	0.084
	T2	patient, refuse, vital, sleep, asleep, time, mom, awake, defer, request	0.072
	T11	patient, move, cry, upset, good, attempt, uto, obtain, kick, uta	0.068
Measure method				0.071
	T10	manual, cuff, bpl, unable, nurse, check, arm, temp, read, recheck	0.071
Simultaneous filing				0.051
	T5	datum, user, filing, simultaneous, previous, doppler, predose, cchdm, unnotifed, present	0.051

^aTopic T13 only has 2 words with positive probabilities, whereas the probability of all the other words was zero and are thus not displayed. The names in T1 and T9 are replaced with <NAME> for anonymity.

^brn: registered nurse.

^chfov: high-frequency oscillatory ventilation.

^dmd: doctor of medicine.

^ecct: critical care team.

^fnp: nurse practitioner.

^gpt: patient.

^hnc: nasal cannula.

ⁱtemp: body temperature.

^jmin: minute.

^keoi: evidence of insurability.

^lbp: blood pressure.

^mcchd: critical congenital heart disease.