Negotiation of Antibiotic Treatment in Medical Consultations: A Corpus Based Study

Nan Wang
2017 Proceedings of ACL 2017, Student Research Workshop  
Doctor-patient conversation is considered a contributing factor to antibiotic overprescription. Some language practices have been identified as parent pressuring doctors for prescribing; other practices are considered as likely to engender parent resistance to non-antibiotic treatment recommendations. In social science studies, approaches such as conversation analysis have been applied to identify those language practices. Current research for dialogue systems offer an alternative approach.
more » ... research proved that corpusbased approaches have been effectively used for research involving modeling dialogue acts and sequential relations. In this proposal, we propose a corpus-based study of doctor-patient conversations of antibiotic treatment negotiation in pediatric consultations. Based on findings from conversation analysis studies, we use a computational linguistic approach to assist annotating and modeling of doctor-patient language practices, and analyzing their influence on antibiotic over-prescribing.
doi:10.18653/v1/p17-3023 dblp:conf/acl/Wang17a fatcat:l3vcfrhifbblvj3bny5ugfyovy