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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Main Authors: Sordo Margarita, Weiss Scott, Goryachev Sergey, Zeng Qing T, Murphy Shawn N, Lazarus Ross
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2006-07-01
Series:BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6947/6/30