A sense inventory for clinical abbreviations and acronyms created using clinical notes and medical dictionary resources

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 299-307

  Moon, Sungrim ^a   Pakhomov, Serguei ^a,b   Liu, Nathan ^c   Ryan, James O ^a   Melton, Genevieve B ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABBREVIATIONS AS TOPIC*; CLINICAL SENSE INVENTORY; MEDICAL RECORDS*; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING*; WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION;

ABBREVIATIONS AS TOPIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; DICTIONARIES, MEDICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MEDLINE; MIDDLE AGED; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84894041859     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2012-001506     Document Type: Article

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