Applying a natural language processing tool to electronic health records to assess performance on colonoscopy quality measures

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Mehrotra, Ateev ^a,b   Dellon, Evan S ^c   Schoen, Robert E ^a   Saul, Melissa ^a   Bishehsari, Faraz ^d   Farmer, Carrie ^b   Harkema, Henk ^a  

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

^b RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

EHR; electronic health record; natural language processing; NLP; University of Pittsburgh Medical Center; UPMC

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COLONOSCOPY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HOSPITAL PLANNING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84861532295     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: 10976779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2012.01.045     Document Type: Article

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