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The freetext matching algorithm: a computer program to extract diagnoses and causes of death from unstructured text in electronic health records

BACKGROUND: Electronic health records are invaluable for medical research, but much information is stored as free text rather than in a coded form. For example, in the UK General Practice Research Database (GPRD), causes of death and test results are sometimes recorded only in free text. Free text c...

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Main Authors: Shah, Anoop D, Martinez, Carlos, Hemingway, Harry
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2012
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3483188/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22870911
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6947-12-88
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