Tracking health disparities through natural-language processing

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 448-449

  Wieland, Mark L ^a   Wu, Stephen T ^a   Kaggal, Vinod C ^a   Yawn, Barbara P ^b  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b OLMSTED MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; REFUGEE; SOMALIA; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MINNESOTA; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; REFUGEES; SOMALIA;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84874098715     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2012.300943     Document Type: Article

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