JMIR medical informatics · 2026
Semantic Similarity Search Approach to Extract Exemplars of Stigmatizing and Positive Language in Obstetric Clinical Notes: Exploratory Study.
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Scroggins Jihye Kim, Hulchafo Ismael Ibrahim, Barcelona Veronica, Davoudi Anahita, Moen Hans, Harkins Sarah, Scharp Danielle, Cato Kenrick, Tadiello Michele, Topaz Maxim
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BACKGROUND: Natural language processing can extract meaningful information from clinical notes. However, human annotation is time-consuming and costly, and scarce data poses a challenge.
OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to explore a semantic similarity search approach to extract exemplars of stigmatizing and positive language in obstetric clinical notes.
METHODS: We used electronic health record data from labor and birth admissions at 2 hospitals in the United States from 2017 to 2019. We used a semantic similarity search approach, which used 200 randomly selected true exemplars, stratified by language categories, as queries to search for similar exemplar candidates. We extracted the top 5 candidates with the highest cosine similarities, which were assessed for accuracy.
RESULTS: We retrieved 1000 candidates. An average precision of 0.69 was achieved when candidates with cosine similarity thresholds of 0.75 or higher were included, at which point 68.8% (64/93) of exemplar candidates accurately represented true cases. At the 0.75 threshold, the proportion of true cases was higher for preferred language (41/56, 73.2%) and unilateral/authoritarian decisions (5/7, 71.4%). The proportion of true cases was lower for difficult patients (2/7, 28.6%) and marginalized identities (3/9, 33.3%).
CONCLUSIONS: The semantic similarity search approach shows promise in efficiently extracting exemplars while reducing the annotation burden, laying the groundwork for future applications in other domains.
OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to explore a semantic similarity search approach to extract exemplars of stigmatizing and positive language in obstetric clinical notes.
METHODS: We used electronic health record data from labor and birth admissions at 2 hospitals in the United States from 2017 to 2019. We used a semantic similarity search approach, which used 200 randomly selected true exemplars, stratified by language categories, as queries to search for similar exemplar candidates. We extracted the top 5 candidates with the highest cosine similarities, which were assessed for accuracy.
RESULTS: We retrieved 1000 candidates. An average precision of 0.69 was achieved when candidates with cosine similarity thresholds of 0.75 or higher were included, at which point 68.8% (64/93) of exemplar candidates accurately represented true cases. At the 0.75 threshold, the proportion of true cases was higher for preferred language (41/56, 73.2%) and unilateral/authoritarian decisions (5/7, 71.4%). The proportion of true cases was lower for difficult patients (2/7, 28.6%) and marginalized identities (3/9, 33.3%).
CONCLUSIONS: The semantic similarity search approach shows promise in efficiently extracting exemplars while reducing the annotation burden, laying the groundwork for future applications in other domains.