Identifying and Reducing Stigmatizing Language in Home Health Care With a Natural Language Processing–Based System (ENGAGE): Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study

Zhihong Zhang   ^{1, 2} , RN, PhD ;   Pallavi Gupta   ² , MS, PhD ;   Stephanie Potts-Thompson   ^{2, 3} , MPH ;   Laura Prescott   ^{2, 3} , MA ;   Morgan Morrison   ^{2, 3} , MA ;   Scott Sittig   ⁴ , RHIA, MHI, PhD ;   Margaret V McDonald   ⁵ , MSW ;   Chase Raymond   ^{6, 7} , PhD ;   Jacquelyn Y Taylor   ³ , RN, PNP-BC, PhD ;   Maxim Topaz   ^{1, 2} , RN, MA, PhD

¹ Columbia University Data Science Institute, New York, NY, United States

² Columbia University School of Nursing, New York, NY, United States

³ Columbia University School of Nursing, Center for Research on People of Color, New York, NY, United States

⁴ University of Louisiana at Lafayette Health Sciences, Lafayette, LA, United States

⁵ Center for Home Care Policy & Research, VNS Health, New York, NY, United States

⁶ Department of Linguistics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States

⁷ Department of Family Medicine, Anschutz Medical Campus, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, United States