Methods for Building Sense Inventories of Abbreviations in Clinical Notes

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 103-108

  Xu, Hua ^a   Stetson, Peter D ^a   Friedman, Carol ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONCEPT MAPPING; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; MACHINE LEARNING; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NOMENCLATURE;

ABBREVIATIONS AS TOPIC; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; INTERNAL MEDICINE; MEDICAL RECORDS; PATIENT ADMISSION;

EID: 57149123675     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M2927     Document Type: Article

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