What does validation of cases in electronic record databases mean? The potential contribution of free text

Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 321-324

  Nicholson, Amanda ^a   Tate, Anne Rosemary ^a   Koeling, Rob ^b   Cassell, Jackie A ^a  

^a BRIGHTON AND SUSSEX MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electronic health records; Free text; Natural language processing; Validation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA BASE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; DISEASE; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FORMS AND RECORDS CONTROL; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; VALIDATION STUDIES AS TOPIC;

EID: 79952007101     PISSN: 10538569     EISSN: 10991557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pds.2086     Document Type: Article

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