Automated Linking of Free-Text Complaints to Reason-for-Visit Categories and International Classification of Diseases Diagnoses in Emergency Department Patient Record Databases

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 401-409

  Day, Frank C ^a,c   Schriger, David L ^a   La, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CHILD; COMPUTER; CONSULTATION; DATA BASE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INFANT; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL RECORD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 1442360582     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0196-0644(03)00748-0     Document Type: Article

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