| Literature DB >> 18999147 |
Sigfried Gold1, Noémie Elhadad, Xinxin Zhu, James J Cimino, George Hripcsak.
Abstract
We present a method that extracts medication information from discharge summaries. The program relies on parsing rules written as a set of regular expressions and on a user-configurable drug lexicon. Our evaluation shows a precision of 94% and recall of 83% in the extraction of medication information. We use a broader definition of medication information than previous studies, including drug names appearing with and without dosage information, misspelled drug names, and contextual information.Mesh:
Year: 2008 PMID: 18999147 PMCID: PMC2655993
Source DB: PubMed Journal: AMIA Annu Symp Proc ISSN: 1559-4076