Applying language technology to nursing documents: Pros and cons with a focus on ethics

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 76, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2007, Pages

  Suominen, Hanna ^a,b   Lehtikunnas, Tuija ^b,d   Back, Barbro ^a,c   Karsten, Helena ^a,b   Salakoski, Tapio ^a,b   Salanterä, Sanna ^b  

^a TURKU CENTRE FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^d TURKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Computerized patient records; Ethics; Intensive care; Natural language processing; Nursing; Nursing records

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; DECISION MAKING; ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT EXCHANGE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MEDICAL COMPUTING; NURSING; PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION;

COMPUTERIZED PATIENT RECORDS; ELECTRONIC NURSING DOCUMENTATION; NURSING RECORDS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL ETHICS; NURSING MANAGEMENT; PATIENT RIGHT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVACY; PROFESSIONAL SECRECY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NURSING CARE;

EID: 34548200762     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2007.05.006     Document Type: Article

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