Development of a cardiac-centered frailty ontology

Abstract Background A Cardiac-centered Frailty Ontology can be an important foundation for using NLP to assess patient frailty. Frailty is an important consideration when making patient treatment decisions, particularly in older adults, those with a cardiac diagnosis, or when major surgery is a cons...

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Main Authors: Kristina Doing-Harris, Bruce E. Bray, Anne Thackeray, Rashmee U. Shah, Yijun Shao, Yan Cheng, Qing Zeng-Treitler, Jennifer H. Garvin, Charlene Weir
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-01-01
Series:Journal of Biomedical Semantics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13326-019-0195-3