Development and validation of a classification approach for extracting severity automatically from electronic health records

Journal of Biomedical Semantics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Boland, Mary Regina ^a   Tatonetti, Nicholas P ^a   Hripcsak, George ^a  

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

Author keywords

Data mining; Electronic health records; Health status indicators; Outcome assessment (Health Care); Phenotype

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938797712     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13326-015-0010-8     Document Type: Article

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