Derivation and validation of automated electronic search strategies to extract Charlson comorbidities from electronic medical records

Mayo Clinic Proceedings

Volumn 87, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 817-824

  Singh, Balwinder ^a   Singh, Amandeep ^a   Ahmed, Adil ^a   Wilson, Gregory A ^a   Pickering, Brian W ^a   Herasevich, Vitaly ^a   Gajic, Ognjen ^a   Li, Guangxi ^a,b  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHINESE MATERIA MEDICA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED DIGITAL ALGORITHM; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DEMENTIA; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; ICD-9; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LEUKEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

EID: 84866398337     PISSN: 00256196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mayocp.2012.04.015     Document Type: Article

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