The Application of Natural-language Processing to Healthcare Quality Assessment

Margaret Lyman, Naomi Sager, Led Tick, Ngo Nhan, Francois Borst and Jean-Raoul Scherrer

Medical Decision Making, 1991, vol. 11, issue 4_suppl, S65-S68

Abstract: This paper describes the automatic extraction of information from hospital discharge letters. The computer analysis and extraction process, designed to eliminate much of the manual effort required to review patient documents, are presented.

Keywords: quality assessment; natural-language processing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1991
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DOI: 10.1177/0272989X9101104s12

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