Electronic medical record text search tool shows promise for identifying postoperative complications
Tuesday, August 23, 2011 - 16:00
in Health & Medicine
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.