Computerized coding of injury narrative data from the National Health Interview Survey

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 165-171

  Wellman, Helen M ^a   Lehto, Mark R ^b   Sorock, Gary S ^a   Smith, Gordon S ^a  

^a LIBERTY MUTUAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR SAFETY   (United States)

^b SCHOOL OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING   (United States)

Author keywords

E code; Fuzzy Bayes; Injury; Narrative text

Indexed keywords

CODES (STANDARDS); COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FUZZY SETS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL COMPUTING; PROBABILITY;

FUZZY BAYESIAN MODELS;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EVALUATION; FUZZY LOGIC; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; MEDICAL RECORD; METHODOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

FORMS AND RECORDS CONTROL; FUZZY LOGIC; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SOFTWARE; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0345328778     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0001-4575(02)00146-X     Document Type: Article

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