Combining free text and structured electronic medical record entries to detect acute respiratory infections

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  DeLisle, Sylvain ^a,b   South, Brett ^a,c   Anthony, Jill A ^d   Kalp, Ericka ^e   Gundlapallli, Adi ^a,c   Curriero, Frank C ^d   Glass, Greg E ^d   Samore, Matthew ^a,c   Perl, Trish M ^e  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BIOSURVEILLANCE; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PRESCRIPTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW; SEARCH ENGINE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ACUTE DISEASE; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CODING; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; CLINICAL CODING; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENTS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 78149436687     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013377     Document Type: Review

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