Improving drug identification in overdose death surveillance by using clinical natural language processing models

By afschroeder • February 9, 2026

Funnell AJ, Petousis P, Harel-Canada F, Romero R, Bui AAT, Koncsol A, Chaturvedi H, Shover C, Goodman-Meza D. Improving drug identification in overdose death surveillance by using clinical natural language processing models. J Forensic Sci. 2026 Feb 8. doi: 10.1111/1556-4029.70281. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 41656761.

Tags: Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT), BioClinicalBERT, death certificate analysis, drug‐related death classification, forensic toxicology, General Internal Medicine, Large language models, multi‐label classification, natural language processing, opioids toxicity, overdose surveillance, polysubstance detection, Publications

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