Recognition of medication information from discharge summaries using ensembles of classifiers

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Extraction of clinical information such as medications or problems from clinical text is an important task of clinical natural language processing (NLP). Rule-based methods are often used in clinical NLP systems because they are easy...

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Main Authors: Doan Son, Collier Nigel, Xu Hua, Duy Pham, Phuong Tu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2012-05-01
Series:BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6947/12/36