Exploring the frontier of electronic health record surveillance the case of postoperative complications

Medical Care

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 509-516

  Henry, Fern Fitz ^a,b   Murff, Harvey J ^a,c   Matheny, Michael E ^a,b,c   Gentry, Nancy ^a   Fielstein, Elliot M ^a,b   Brown, Steven H ^a,b,c   Reeves, Ruth M ^a,b   Aronsky, Dominik ^a,b   Elkin, Peter L ^d   Messina, Vincent P ^a   Speroff, Theodore ^a,c,d  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adverse events; Electronic surveillance; Natural language processing; Patient safety; Surgical complications; Text mining

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PATIENT SAFETY; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE EVENT MONITOR; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS; SURGICAL INFECTION; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VETERANS AFFAIR SURGICAL QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM;

ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY; ALGORITHMS; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PNEUMONIA; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; SEPSIS; UNITED STATES; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; VENOUS THROMBOSIS; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 84879121120     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: 15371948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e31828d1210     Document Type: Article

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