May, 2026
Journal
Evolving language of pediatric anxiety in electronic health records
Objectives: This study aimed to identify and quantify semantic drift (ie, the change in semantic meaning over time) within expert-defined anxiety-related (AR) terminology and compare it to common electronic health record (EHR) vocabulary across longitudinal pediatric clinical notes. Materials and Methods: A corpus of pediatric clinical notes from 2009 to 2022 was analyzed…