Medical narratives in electronic medical records

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 7-29

  Tange, Huibert J ^a   Hasman, Arie ^a   De Vries Robbé, Pieter F ^b   Schouten, Harry C ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Electronic patient record systems; Information retrieval; Medical narratives

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ELECTRONIC PATIENT RECORD SYSTEMS; MEDICAL NARRATIVES;

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

COMPUTER SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SYSTEM; LITERATURE; MEDICAL RECORD; NOMENCLATURE; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESEARCH; REVIEW;

EID: 0031213993     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1386-5056(97)00048-8     Document Type: Article

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