Data from clinical notes: A perspective on the tension between structure and flexible documentation

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 181-186

  Rosenbloom, S Trent ^a   Denny, Joshua C ^a   Xu, Hua ^a   Lorenzi, Nancy ^a   Stead, William W ^a   Johnson, Kevin B ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER SYSTEM; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; PATIENT CARE;

DATA MINING; DOCUMENTATION; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FORMS AND RECORDS CONTROL; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS, PROBLEM-ORIENTED; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; WORKFLOW;

EID: 79953093873     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.2010.007237     Document Type: Article

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