The Project Grant award of $156,589.00 from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), under the Oral Diseases and Disorders Research (CFDA 93.121) program, supports a research project led by Dr. Heather Taylor at Indiana University Indianapolis. The project aims to leverage electronic health record (EHR) data, including both structured and unstructured clinical notes, to develop advanced machine learning models that can better predict and identify adults at risk of seeking emergency department care for non-traumatic dental conditions. The ultimate goal is to enable health systems to provide targeted support and connect these high-risk individuals to definitive dental care, thereby addressing oral health disparities. The research project involves three key objectives: 1) leveraging multi-health system EHR data to predict emergency department use for non-traumatic dental conditions, 2) extracting novel oral health predictors from clinical notes using natural language processing, and 3) assessing the predictive performance of models built on structured and unstructured EHR data. This project is expected to run from Sep 1, 2024 to Aug 31, 2029.
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