Views on methods of processing free text
| How supportive are you of each of the processes for extracting clinical information from free text, as described below? | Participants’ response | ||||
| Strongly supportive | Fairly supportive | Neither | Fairly unsupportive | Strongly unsupportive | |
| I. Where text is coded by the healthcare professional (eg, GP or nurse) who provides care and records the free text? | 7 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| II. Where text is first anonymised by computer and/or person, then provided to a research team who will read the free text in order to gain a deep understanding of a specific thing (qualitative analysis)? | 7 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| III. Where text is first anonymised by computer and/or person, then coded by a medical student and checked by a healthcare professional from the research team? | 11 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| IV. Where text is first anonymised by computer and/or person, then coded by a medical student and checked by a healthcare professional, and then used to develop a computer program which would automatically code other patient records for research? | 10 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| V. Where text is first anonymised by computer and/or person, then automatically coded by a computer program and checked by a healthcare professional? | 7 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 |