Using the electronic medical record to identify community-acquired pneumonia: toward a replicable automated strategy.

Timely information about disease severity can be central to the detection and management of outbreaks of acute respiratory infections (ARI), including influenza. We asked if two resources: 1) free text, and 2) structured data from an electronic medical record (EMR) could complement each other to ide...

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Main Authors: Sylvain DeLisle, Bernard Kim, Janaki Deepak, Tariq Siddiqui, Adi Gundlapalli, Matthew Samore, Leonard D'Avolio
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3742728?pdf=render