Automated categorisation of clinical incident reports using statistical text classification

Quality and Safety in Health Care

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Ong, Mei Sing ^a   Magrabi, Farah ^a   Coiera, Enrico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLASSIFICATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; MEDICAL ERROR; METHODOLOGY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; STATISTICS;

AUTOMATION; CLASSIFICATION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; MEDICAL ERRORS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 78650364839     PISSN: 14753898     EISSN: 14753901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/qshc.2009.036657     Document Type: Article

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