Automated identification of postoperative complications within an electronic medical record using natural language processing

JAMA

Volumn 306, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 848-855

  Murff, Harvey J ^a,b   FitzHenry, Fern ^a,c   Matheny, Michael E ^a,b,c   Gentry, Nancy ^a   Kotter, Kristen L ^b   Crimin, Kimberly ^b   Dittus, Robert S ^a,b   Rosen, Amy K ^d,e   Elkin, Peter L ^f   Brown, Steven H ^a,c   Speroff, Theodore ^a,b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d VA BOSTON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^e BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PATIENT CODING; PATIENT SAFETY; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; AUTOMATION; DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUP; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITALIZATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; KIDNEY FAILURE; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; SAFETY; STATISTICS; SURGERY; UNITED STATES; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

AUTOMATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, VETERANS; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INPATIENTS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PNEUMONIA; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY; SAFETY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; UNITED STATES; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 80052063328     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2011.1204     Document Type: Article

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