Development and Validation of a Natural Language Processing Tool to Identify Patients Treated for Pneumonia across VA Emergency Departments.

Journal: Applied clinical informatics

PMID: 29466818

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Identifying pneumonia using diagnosis codes alone may be insufficient for research on clinical decision making. Natural language processing (NLP) may enable the inclusion of cases missed by diagnosis codes.

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B E Jones
B R South
Y Shao
C C Lu
J Leng
B C Sauer
A V Gundlapalli
M H Samore
Q Zeng

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Cohort Studies Emergency Service, Hospital Humans Natural Language Processing Pneumonia Reproducibility of Results ROC Curve Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted United States United States Department of Veterans Affairs

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Development and Validation of a Natural Language Processing Tool to Identify Patients Treated for Pneumonia across VA Emergency Departments.

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