Portable Automated Surveillance of Surgical Site Infections Using Natural Language Processing: Development and Validation.

Journal: Annals of surgery
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Abstract

OBJECTIVES: We present the development and validation of a portable NLP approach for automated surveillance of SSIs.

Authors

  • Brian T Bucher
    School of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, US.
  • Jianlin Shi
    University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
  • Jeffrey P Ferraro
    School of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, US.
  • David E Skarda
    Department of Surgery University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah.
  • Matthew H Samore
    VA Salt Lake City Health Care System, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
  • John F Hurdle
    Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.
  • Adi V Gundlapalli
    School of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, US.
  • Wendy W Chapman
    School of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, US.
  • Samuel R G Finlayson
    Department of Surgery University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah.