A Keyword Approach to Identify Adverse Events Within Narrative Documents From 4 Italian Institutions.
Journal:
Journal of patient safety
Published Date:
Jan 1, 2022
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: Existing methods for measuring adverse events in hospitals intercept a restricted number of events. Text mining refers to a range of techniques to extract data from narrative sources. The goal of this study was to evaluate the performance of an automated approach for extracting adverse event keywords from within electronic health records.