The Application of Natural-language Processing to Healthcare Quality Assessment
- 1 December 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Medical Decision Making
- Vol. 11 (4_suppl) , S65-S68
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0272989x9101104s12
Abstract
This paper describes the automatic extraction of information from hospital discharge letters. The computer analysis and extraction process, designed to eliminate much of the manual effort required to review patient documents, are presented.Keywords
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