Extracting principal diagnosis, co-morbidity and smoking status for asthma research: evaluation of a natural language processing system
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The text descriptions in electronic medical records are a rich source of information. We have developed a Health Information Text Extraction (HITEx) tool and used it to extract key findings for a research study on airways disease.<...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2006-07-01
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| Series: | BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making |
| Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6947/6/30 |