Data-driven approach for assessing utility of medical tests using electronic medical records

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 53, Issue , 2015, Pages 270-276

  Skrøvseth, Stein Olav ^a,b   Augestad, Knut Magne ^a,c   Ebadollahi, Shahram ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Colorectal surgery; Electronic medical records; Information theory; Medical informatics; Pattern recognition

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC ASSESSMENT; INFORMATION THEORY; MEDICAL COMPUTING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SURGERY;

C-REACTIVE PROTEINS; COLORECTAL SURGERY; DATA-DRIVEN ANALYSIS; DATA-DRIVEN APPROACH; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; INFORMATION CONTENTS; PATIENT TRAJECTORIES; RADIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUE;

MEDICAL INFORMATICS;

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL PATHWAY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; ENTROPY; GASTROINTESTINAL SURGERY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KERNEL METHOD; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ANASTOMOSIS; ANUS NEOPLASMS; BLOOD; BLOOD EXAMINATION; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; TIME; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANUS NEOPLASMS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MIDDLE AGED; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84924521437     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2014.11.011     Document Type: Article

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