Identification of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus within the nations veterans affairs medical centers using natural language processing

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Jones, Makoto ^a,b   Duvall, Scott L ^a,b   Spuhl, Joshua ^a   Samore, Matthew H ^a,b   Nielson, Christopher ^c,d   Rubin, Michael ^a,b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VA Reno Medical Center   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ALGORITHMS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); HOSPITALS, VETERANS; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS;

EID: 84862187735     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-12-34     Document Type: Article

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