The Evaluation of a Temporal Reasoning System in Processing Clinical Discharge Summaries

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 99-106

  Zhou, Li ^a,b   Parsons, Simon ^c   Hripcsak, George ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b PARTNERS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; EVALUATION; GOLD STANDARD; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION;

FORMS AND RECORDS CONTROL; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PATIENT DISCHARGE; TIME;

EID: 36749096690     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M2467     Document Type: Article

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