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. 1991 Oct-Dec;11(4 Suppl):S65-8.

The application of natural-language processing to healthcare quality assessment

M Lyman  1 , N Sager, L Tick, N Nhan, F Borst, J R Scherrer
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  • PMID: 1770852

The application of natural-language processing to healthcare quality assessment

M Lyman et al. Med Decis Making. 1991 Oct-Dec.

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.

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