| Literature DB >> 18694215 |
Brett R South1, Shobha Phansalkar, Ashwin Deepak Swaminathan, Sylvain Delisle, Trish Perl, Matthew H Samore.
Abstract
We tested automated detection of influenza-like illness (ILI) from free-text clinician notes extracted from the VA electronic medical record using a simple negation algorithm coupled with string matching for relevant ILI symptoms mapped to UMLS concepts. Additionally, we documented negation problems encountered and adaptations made to the negation algorithm when applied to the full texts of a diverse array of VA note types and templates.Mesh:
Year: 2007 PMID: 18694215
Source DB: PubMed Journal: AMIA Annu Symp Proc ISSN: 1559-4076