Unlocking clinical data from narrative reports: A study of natural language processing

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 122, Issue 9, 1995, Pages 681-688

  Hripcsak, George ^b   Friedman, Carol ^b   Alderson, Philip O ^b   DuMouchel, William ^b   Johnson, Stephen B ^b   Clayton, Paul D ^b  

^a New York Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

^b NONE

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL STUDY; INTERNAL MEDICINE; LANGUAGE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0028955263     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-122-9-199505010-00007     Document Type: Article

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