Automatically identifying health outcome information in MEDLINE records

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 52-60

  Demner Fushman, Dina ^a   Few, Barbara ^a   Hauser, Susan E ^a   Thoma, George ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; DECISION MAKING; EVALUATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDLINE; PREDICTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MEDLINE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE);

EID: 29244443663     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M1911     Document Type: Article

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