MedXN: An open source medication extraction and normalization tool for clinical text

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 858-865

  Sohn, Sunghwan ^a   Clark, Cheryl ^b   Halgrim, Scott R ^c   Murphy, Sean P ^a   Chute, Christopher G ^a   Liu, Hongfang ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b MITRE CORPORATION   (United States)

^c GROUP HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANGIOPEPTIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ISOSORBIDE 5 NITRATE; LORATADINE; RECOMBINANT ERYTHROPOIETIN; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE; VITAMIN; WHITE PETROLATUM;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BOOK; DATA EXTRACTION; DRUG DOSAGE FORM; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; F MEASURE; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICATION EXTRACTION AND NORMALIZATION SYSTEM; NOMENCLATURE; ONTOLOGY; PRESCRIPTION; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; TREATMENT DURATION;

ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS; MEDICATION EXTRACTION; MEDICATION NORMALIZATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; RXNORM;

DATA MINING; DRUG THERAPY; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HUMANS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; RXNORM;

EID: 84906323732     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2013-002190     Document Type: Article

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