Natural language processing for disease phenotyping in UK primary care records for research: a pilot study in myocardial infarction and death

Natural language processing for disease phenotyping in UK primary care records for research: a pilot study in myocardial infarction and death

Abstract Background Free text in electronic health records (EHR) may contain additional phenotypic information beyond structured (coded) information. For major health events – heart attack and death – there is a lack of studies evaluating the extent to which free text in the primary care record migh...

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Main Authors: Anoop D. Shah, Emily Bailey, Tim Williams, Spiros Denaxas, Richard Dobson, Harry Hemingway
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-11-01
Series:Journal of Biomedical Semantics
Subjects:
Free text
Myocardial infarction
Primary care
Chest pain
Natural language processing
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13326-019-0214-4

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