Finding falls in ambulatory care clinical documents using statistical text mining.
CONCLUSIONS: The results of this study suggest STM-based models have the potential to improve surveillance of falls. Furthermore, the encouraging evidence shown here that STM is a robust technique for mining clinical documents bodes well for other surveillance-related topics.
PMID: 23242765 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association - Category: Information Technology Authors: McCart JA, Berndt DJ, Jarman J, Finch DK, Luther SL Tags: J Am Med Inform Assoc Source Type: research