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Electronic medical record text search tool shows promise for identifying postoperative complications

Published in Health and Medicine Week, September 5th, 2011

2011 SEP 5 -- CHICAGO - Use of natural language processing, such as in the form of free-text searches of electronic medical records (EMRs) of clinical and progress notes of patients performed better at identifying postoperative surgical complications than the commonly used administrative data codes in EMRs, according to a study in the August 24/31 issue of JAMA.

To improve on identifying patient safety concerns, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality developed a set of 20 measures, known as the patient safety indicators, which use administrative data to screen for potential adverse events that occur during hospitalization, according to background...

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Source: Health and Medicine Week (2011-09-05)

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