Unstructured Text in EMR Improves Prediction of Death after Surgery in Children

Unstructured Text in EMR Improves Prediction of Death after Surgery in Children

Text fields in electronic medical records (EMR) contain information on important factors that influence health outcomes, however, they are underutilized in clinical decision making due to their unstructured nature. We analyzed 6497 inpatient surgical cases with 719,308 free text notes from Le Bonheu...

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Main Authors: Oguz Akbilgic, Ramin Homayouni, Kevin Heinrich, Max Raymond Langham, Robert Lowell Davis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-01-01
Series:Informatics
Subjects:
post-operative death
unstructured data
logistic regression
text mining
surgery outcome
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2227-9709/6/1/4

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