Extracting timing and status descriptors for colonoscopy testing from electronic medical records
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Extracting timing and status descriptors for colonoscopy testing from electronic medical records
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1527-974X,1067-5027
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.2010.004804