Feature request: A qualifier that detects the experiencer (beyond family members)

[bdura]

Feature type

New qualifier pipeline, overtaking and improving the eds.family component.

Description

As of today, EDS-NLP only equiped to detect family members. We should add detection of other types of experiencers, perhaps as a catch-all other modality?

Possible experiencers in that paradigm:

• patient or self
• family
• other

I feel this would cover most use-case. The family modality is particularly important in case of hereditary diseases (although one could argue we need to know whether those are blood relatives in that case).

Depending on the speciality (psychology pops to mind), other types of experiencers might be useful (friend?), but I wonder whether the other experiencer is enough even in that case. The mere fact that the healthcare provider mentions an other could well be sufficient information?

Any thoughts?

[percevalw]

Good idea! I haven't read anything about extracting other types of experiencers than self, family and other, and I agree that these values cover most use cases. As for detecting more specific experiencers such as friends, coworker, etc., we could rely on terminologies. For instance, friend is C0079382 and coworker is C0681088 in the UMLS.

[Thomzoy]

Another case of experiencer is the organ donor. Some notes go into great details to describe the donor's clinical state before death, leading to false positive when e.g. identifying diseases