Scholars@Duke
Norine Chan

Norine Chan

House Staff
Surgery

Selected Publications

Development of a natural language processing algorithm to extract social determinants of health from clinician notes.

Journal Article Am J Transplant · June 2025 Disparities in access to the organ transplant waitlist are well-documented, but research into modifiable factors has been limited due to a lack of access to organized prewaitlisting data. This study aimed to develop a natural language processing (NLP) algo ... Full text Link to item Cite

A guide to large data sets for population-based cancer research: Strengths, limitations, and pitfalls.

Journal Article Cancer · November 15, 2024 With the proliferation of cancer research based on large databases, misalignment of research questions and data set capabilities is inevitable. Nationally maintained databases are appealing to cancer researchers because of the ease of access to large amoun ... Full text Link to item Cite

Characterization of social determinants of health of a liver transplant referral population.

Journal Article Liver Transpl · November 1, 2023 Disparities exist in referral and access to the liver transplant (LT) waitlist, and social determinants of health (SDOH) are increasingly recognized as important factors driving health inequities, including in LT. The SDOH of potential transplant candidate ... Full text Link to item Cite

Ketamine for Chronic Pain and Mental Health: Regulations, Legalities, and the Growth of Infusion Clinics.

Journal Article Curr Pain Headache Rep · October 2023 PURPOSE OF REVIEW: In this article, we will review evidence for ketamine's role in chronic pain and mental health conditions, its current legal status and abuse potential, and the regulations related to its administration in stand-alone infusion clinics, a ... Full text Link to item Cite

Equity in liver transplantation: are we any closer?

Journal Article Curr Opin Organ Transplant · August 1, 2023 PURPOSE OF REVIEW: As policies governing liver transplantation (LT) continue to change and influence clinical practice, it is important to monitor trends in equitable access and outcomes amongst patients. The purpose of this review is to closely examine re ... Full text Link to item Cite

A comparison of deprivation indices and application to transplant populations.

Journal Article Am J Transplant · March 2023 The choice of deprivation index can influence conclusions drawn regarding the extent of deprivation within a community and the identification of the most deprived communities in the United States. This study aimed to determine the degree of correlation amo ... Full text Link to item Cite

Social determinants of health data in solid organ transplantation: National data sources and future directions.

Journal Article Am J Transplant · October 2022 Health equity research in transplantation has largely relied on national data sources, yet the availability of social determinants of health (SDOH) data varies widely among these sources. We sought to characterize the extent to which national data sources ... Full text Link to item Cite