Real world performance of approximate string comparators for use in patient matching

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 107, Issue , 2004, Pages 43-47

  Grannis, Shaun J ^a   Overhage, J Marc ^a   McDonald, Clement ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Knowledge Management; Medical Record Linkage; Patient Matching

Indexed keywords

COMPARATORS (OPTICAL); DATA HANDLING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; STATISTICS; COMPARATOR CIRCUITS;

COMPARISON METHODS; INDEPENDENT SOURCES; LEVENSHTEIN EDIT DISTANCE; LONGEST COMMON SUBSTRING; MEDICAL RECORD; PATIENT MATCHING; REAL-WORLD PERFORMANCE; ROOT MEAN SQUARE METHODS; CLINICAL DATA; DETERMINISTICS; MATCHINGS; MEDICAL RECORDS LINKAGES; NAME MATCHING;

COMPARATOR CIRCUITS; COMPARATORS (OPTICAL);

ADULT; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; LINKAGE CLUSTERING; MEDICAL RECORD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VITAL STATISTICS;

EID: 69549083553     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-949-3-43     Document Type: Article

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