Finding clusters of similar events within clinical incident reports: A novel methodology combining case based reasoning and information retrieval

Quality and Safety in Health Care

Volumn 12, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2003, Pages

  Tsatsoulis, C ^a   Amthauer, H A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE BASED REASONING; CASE FINDING; CLINICAL INCIDENT REPORT; CONFERENCE PAPER; DATA BASE; DOCUMENTATION; GOOD CLINICAL PRACTICE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MEDICAL RECORD; PREDICTION; TRANSFUSION MEDICINE;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL ERRORS; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0347586854     PISSN: 09638172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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