Toward reflective management of emergency department chief complaint information

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 763-767

  Niiranen, Samuli T ^a,b   Yli Hietanen, Jari M ^b   Nathanson, Larry A ^c  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Information systems; Information technology; Medical information systems; Medical services

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; EMERGENCY ROOMS; HOSPITALS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MEDICAL SERVICES; SYNDROMIC SURVEILLANCES;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL RECORD; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 56549107169     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2008.926464     Document Type: Article

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