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Towards Better Discharge Summaries
In an investigation of the communication between Hospital and General Practitioners, 99 General Practitioners were asked by means of a postal questionnaire to state the relative importance they attached to the issues of speed of delivery, format, author, and the content of the discharge summaries. The issue of speed of delivery proved to be a central and recurrent theme in the replies received,...
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We have developed a program for extracting the diagnoses and procedures from the past medical history and discharge diagnoses in the discharge summary of a case and coding these using SNOMED-CT in the UMLS. The program uses a limited amount of natural language processing. Rather, it makes use of the relatively standard structure of the discharge summary, a small dictionary to divide the text in...
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We developed a program to extract diseases and procedures from discharge summaries and have applied this program to 96 cases annotated by physicians. We compared the concepts extracted by the program to those extracted by the annotators. The program extracts 93% of the desired concepts including some more specific than the annotators. Concepts were missed because phrases were ambiguous, phrases...
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OBJECTIVE Clinical records contain significant medical information that can be useful to researchers in various disciplines. However, these records also contain personal health information (PHI) whose presence limits the use of the records outside of hospitals. The goal of de-identification is to remove all PHI from clinical records. This is a challenging task because many records contain forei...
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A method for automatic analysis of time-oriented clinical narratives would be of significant practical import for medical decision making, data modeling and biomedical research. This paper proposes a robust corpus-based approach for temporal analysis of medical discharge summaries. We characterize temporal organization of clinical narratives in terms of temporal segments and their ordering. We ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Psychiatric Bulletin
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0955-6036,1472-1473
DOI: 10.1192/pb.22.3.148