Automated extraction of ejection fraction for quality measurement using regular expressions in unstructured information management architecture(uima) for heart failure

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 859-866

  Garvin, Jennifer H ^a,b   DuVall, Scott L ^a,b   South, Brett R ^a,b   Bray, Bruce E ^b   Bolton, Daniel ^a,b   Heavirland, Julia ^a   Pickard, Steve ^a,b   Heidenreich, Paul ^c,d   Shen, Shuying ^a,b   Weir, Charlene ^a,b   Samore, Matthew ^a,b   Goldstein, Mary K ^c,d  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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

^c VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; PREDICTIVE VALUE; TRAINING; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VALIDATION STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA MINING; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART STROKE VOLUME; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

DATA MINING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SOFTWARE VALIDATION; STROKE VOLUME; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS;

EID: 84872255188     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000535     Document Type: Article

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