Deriving comorbidities from medical records using natural language processing

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 20, Issue E2, 2013, Pages

  Salmasian, Hojjat ^a   Freedberg, Daniel E ^a   Friedman, Carol ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILLING AND CLAIMS; CANCER STAGING; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; CHILD; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; DEMENTIA; DIABETIC FOOT; DIABETIC KETOACIDOSIS; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEMIPLEGIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; ICD-9; INFANT; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; KIDNEY DISEASE; LEUKEMIA; LIVER DISEASE; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PEPTIC ULCER; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PHYSICIAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULCER; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM;

COMORBIDITY; CONFOUNDING FACTORS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84890487849     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2013-001889     Document Type: Article

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