Identification of Long Bone Fractures in Radiology Reports Using Natural Language Processing to support Healthcare Quality Improvement.

Journal: Applied clinical informatics
Published Date: Nov 9, 2016

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Important information to support healthcare quality improvement is often recorded in free text documents such as radiology reports. Natural language processing (NLP) methods may help extract this information, but these methods have rarely been applied outside the research laboratories where they were developed.

Authors

  • Robert W Grundmeier
    Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 3535 Market Street, Suite 1024, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA.
  • Aaron J Masino
    Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 3535 Market Street, Suite 1024, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA. masinoa@email.chop.edu.
  • T Charles Casper
  • Jonathan M Dean
  • Jamie Bell
  • Rene Enriquez
  • Sara Deakyne
  • James M Chamberlain
    Division of Emergency Medicine, Children's National Health System, Washington, DC.
  • Elizabeth R Alpern

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