Automated evaluation of electronic discharge notes to assess quality of care for cardiovascular diseases using Medical Language Extraction And Encoding System (MedLEE)

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 245-252

  Chiang, Jung Hsien ^a   Lin, Jou Wei ^b,c   Yang, Chen Wei ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTILIPEMIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; NON ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; VALIDATION STUDY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA MINING; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; MEDICAL RECORD; METHODOLOGY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; TAIWAN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANGINA, UNSTABLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DATA MINING; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT DISCHARGE; SOFTWARE VALIDATION; TAIWAN;

EID: 77955291899     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.2009.000182     Document Type: Article

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