Automating the Assignment of Diagnosis Codes to Patient Encounters Using Example-based and Machine Learning Techniques
Open Access
- 1 September 2006
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
- Vol. 13 (5) , 516-525
- https://doi.org/10.1197/jamia.m2077
Abstract
Objective: Human classification of diagnoses is a labor intensive process that consumes significant resources. Most medical practices use specially tKeywords
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