Content Mining of Titles of Clinical Nursing Research Papers to Inform the Development of Tools to Support Clinical Research

Sunmoo Yoon, RN, PhD1,2, Manuel C. Co Jr., RN, MSN, MS2, Adam B. Wilcox, PhD2, Suzanne Bakken, RN, PhD1,2
1School

of Nursing, 2Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, NY

Abstract
We applied content mining techniques to the title text from 1,688 recent clinical nursing research papers in order to assess hot topics as a required step for the development of informatics tools to support clinical nursing research. Seventy-five concepts including emergency, discharge care, pressure ulcer, fall, infection, and prevention emerged as frequent concepts from the research papers. Content mining methods were useful for discovering, summarizing, and visualizing main concepts within the clinical nursing research domain.

Results

Implications
Content mining procedure offers an innovative way to discover nursing research topics to inform the development of informatics tools to support clinical research RDWs need to include system-level resources to understand the context of care - not just medical interventions such as drugs and surgeries. Query tools need to maximize user interaction functions (e.g., multi-level search functions) to allow users to search multi-level concepts

Content Mining Process of Clinical Nursing Research Papers

Introduction
Understanding topics used among clinical nursing researchers may improve the development and relevance of informatics tools to support clinical research such as research data warehouses (RDWs), query tools, and study management applications. The purpose of this study was to analyze titles of nursing research papers using content mining techniques.

Conclusion

Visualization of Main Topics of Clinical Nursing Research

Content mining methods were useful for discovering, summarizing, and visualizing clinical nursing research topics. Content mining methods may provide insights for the improvement of informatics tools for supporting clinical research.

Methods
Data source: 495 clinical nursing journals in PubMed Data extraction Titles of 1,688 clinical nursing research papers Keywords nursing, clinical, hospital, clinical nursing research nursing evaluation research, and practice nursing research 21,353 concepts using AutoMap software Data modeling Preprocess, data reduction (freq>10), and Ngram conversion Concept aggregation using thesauri (75 concepts) Ontological categorization (kappa= 0.71) ; agent, resource, setting, and knowledge Visualization: networks diagram Interpretation & Evaluation: iterate the process according to meaningfulness
SETTING

Acknowledgments
AHRQ grant R01 HS019853-01, Washington Heights/Inwood Informatics Infrastructure for Community-Centered Comparative Effectiveness Research (WICER)

AGENT KNOWELDGE
Ontology
Knowledge Resource Agent

References
1. Diesner, Jana & Carley, Kathleen. Extract, analyze, represent, and compare mental models from texts. Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science, Technical Report CMU-ISRI-04-100. 2004.

Term Frequency
Care (277), Effectiveness (86), Outcome (71), Trial (62), Intervention (52), Patient education (52), Quality (52) Program (85), Experience (77), Strategy (60), Collaboration (59), Leader (45), Staff (45), Guideline (43) Nurse (509), Patient (312), Student (46), Specialist (42), Elderly (37), Nurse practitioner (36), New-graduate (35) Hospital (169), Ward (85), ICU (48), Inpatient (26), Community (20), Home (19)

RESOURCE

Setting