Automating classification of free-text electronic health records for epidemiological studies

Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 651-658

  Schuemie, Martijn J ^a   Sen, Emine ^a   't Jong, Geert W ^a   Van Soest, Eva M ^a   Sturkenboom, Miriam C ^a   Kors, Jan A ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Case definition; Free text; Machine learning; Method; Text mining

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA BASE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING ALGORITHM; LIVER DISEASE; MACHINE LEARNING; PATIENT INFORMATION; PHYSICIAN; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGY; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRAINING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; DECISION TREES; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; WORKFLOW;

EID: 84862170821     PISSN: 10538569     EISSN: 10991557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pds.3205     Document Type: Article

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