Exploring the Association of Cancer and Depression in Electronic Health Records: Combining Encoded Diagnosis and Mining Free-Text Clinical Notes

Angela Leis   ^{1, 2} , PsyM, PhD ;   David Casadevall   ^{3, 4} , MD, PhD ;   Joan Albanell   ^{3, 4} , MD, PhD ;   Margarita Posso   ^{5, 6} , MD, PhD ;   Francesc Macià   ^{5, 6} , MD, PhD ;   Xavier Castells   ^{5, 6} , MD, PhD ;   Juan Manuel Ramírez-Anguita   ^{1, 2} , PhD ;   Jordi Martínez Roldán   ⁷ , MD ;   Laura I Furlong   ^{1, 2} , PhD ;   Ferran Sanz   ^{1, 2} , Prof Dr ;   Francesco Ronzano   ² , PhD ;   Miguel A Mayer   ^{1, 2} , MD, PhD

¹ Research Programme on Biomedical Informatics, Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain

² Department of Medicine and Life Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

³ Cancer Research Program, Hospital del Mar Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain

⁴ Medical Oncology Department, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain

⁵ Department of Epidemiology, Hospital del Mar Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain

⁶ Research Network on Chronicity, Primary Care and Health Promotion (RICAPPS), Barcelona, Spain

⁷ Innovation and Digital Transformation Area, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain