An automated technique for identifying associations between medications, laboratory results and problems

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 891-901

  Wright, Adam ^a,b   Chen, Elizabeth S ^c   Maloney, Francine L ^b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b PARTNERS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Association rule mining; Clinical decision support; Data mining

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION RULE MINING; AUTOMATED TECHNIQUES; CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT; CLINICAL MEDICINE; COMPLETE PROBLEMS; DATA MINING TECHNIQUES; DATA SETS; DECISION SUPPORTS; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; GOLD STANDARDS; KNOWLEDGE-BASED APPROACH; LABORATORY TEST; QUALITY MEASUREMENTS; REFERENCE DATABASE;

ASSOCIATION RULES; ASSOCIATIVE PROCESSING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LABORATORIES; MEDICINE; RECORDS MANAGEMENT;

DATA MINING;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA MINING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; FEMALE; GOLD STANDARD; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; LABORATORY AUTOMATION; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICATION ERROR; MEDICATION THERAPY MANAGEMENT; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PATIENT CODING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICS; TECHNIQUE;

CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; DATA COLLECTION; DATA MINING; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FORMS AND RECORDS CONTROL; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE BASES; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MEDICATION SYSTEMS, HOSPITAL;

EID: 78649328064     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2010.09.009     Document Type: Article

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