Building an automated SOAP classifier for emergency department reports

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 71-81

  Mowery, Danielle ^a   Wiebe, Janyce ^b   Visweswaran, Shyam ^a,b   Harkema, Henk ^a   Chapman, Wendy W ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

POMR; Prediction; Problem oriented medical record; SOAP notes; Support vector machine

Indexed keywords

CANONICAL STRUCTURE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL INFORMATION; EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS; INFORMATION EXTRACTION; KAPPA COEFFICIENT; LINGUISTIC FEATURES; LOOK-FORWARD; MEDICAL DOMAINS; MEDICAL RECORD; POMR; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SUPPORT VECTOR;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); FORECASTING; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; RATING;

EMERGENCY ROOMS;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DATA EXTRACTION; DATA PROCESSING; DECISION MAKING; EMERGENCY WARD; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; SUBJECTIVE OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT PLAN NOTE; TREATMENT PLANNING; VITAL SIGN;

AUTOMATION; DATA MINING; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; RESEARCH REPORT;

EID: 84856381718     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2011.08.020     Document Type: Article

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