A formal concept analysis and semantic query expansion cooperation to refine health outcomes of interest.

Journal: BMC medical informatics and decision making
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are frequently used by clinicians and researchers to search for, extract, and analyze groups of patients by defining Health Outcome of Interests (HOI). The definition of an HOI is generally considered a complex and time consuming task for health care professionals.

Authors

  • Olivier C CurĂ©
  • Henri Maurer
  • Nigam H Shah
    Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
  • Paea Le Pendu