Theoretical considerations of ethics in text mining of nursing documents

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 122, Issue , 2006, Pages 359-364

  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; Ethics; Intensive Care; Natural Language Processing; Patient Records

Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; NURSING; PATIENT TREATMENT; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

COMPUTERIZED; ELECTRONIC PATIENT RECORD; ETHICS; INTENSIVE CARE; NURSING DOCUMENTATION; NURSING INTERVENTIONS; PATIENT CONFIDENTIALITY; PATIENT RECORD;

DATA MINING;

ARTICLE; CONFIDENTIALITY; ETHICS; FINLAND; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MEDICAL RECORD; NURSING CARE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CONFIDENTIALITY; FINLAND; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NURSING CARE;

EID: 39049188532     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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