Comparison of natural language processing biosurveillance methods for identifying influenza from encounter notes

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 156, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 11-18

  Elkin, Peter L ^a   Froehling, David A ^b   Wahner Roedler, Dietlind L ^b   Brown, Steven H ^c   Bailey, Kent R ^b  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOSURVEILLANCE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DIARRHEA; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FEVER; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; INFLUENZA A; INFLUENZA B; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; INFLUENZA VIRUS B; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEUKOPENIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SORE THROAT; TACHYPNEA;

EID: 84855253927     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-156-1-201201030-00003     Document Type: Article

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