Automating a severity score guideline for community-acquired pneumonia employing medical language processing of discharge summaries

Obtaining encoded variables is often a key obstacle to automating clinical guidelines. Frequently the pertinent information occurs as text in patient reports, but text is inadequate for the task. This paper describes a retrospective study that automates determination of severity classes for patients...

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Veröffentlicht in:Proceedings. AMIA Symposium. - 1998. - (1999) vom: 23., Seite 256-60
1. Verfasser: Friedman, C (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Knirsch, C, Shagina, L, Hripcsak, G
Format: Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 1999
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Schlagworte:Journal Article Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
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