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PharmMT: A Neural Machine Translation Approach to Simplify Prescription Directions

04/08/2022
by   Jiazhao Li, et al.
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The language used by physicians and health professionals in prescription directions includes medical jargon and implicit directives and causes much confusion among patients. Human intervention to simplify the language at the pharmacies may introduce additional errors that can lead to potentially severe health outcomes. We propose a novel machine translation-based approach, PharmMT, to automatically and reliably simplify prescription directions into patient-friendly language, thereby significantly reducing pharmacist workload. We evaluate the proposed approach over a dataset consisting of over 530K prescriptions obtained from a large mail-order pharmacy. The end-to-end system achieves a BLEU score of 60.27 against the reference directions generated by pharmacists, a 39.6 Pharmacists judged 94.3 minimal changes. This work demonstrates the feasibility of a machine translation-based tool for simplifying prescription directions in real-life.

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