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Natural Language Processing, Electronic Health Records, and Clinical Research
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2012
Health Informatics Series
Electronic health records (EHR) capture "real-world" disease and care processes and hence offer richer and more generalizable data for comparative effectiveness research than traditional randomized clinical trial studies. With the increasingly broadening adoption of EHR worldwide, there is a growing need to widen the use of EHR data to support clinical research. A big barrier to this goal is that much of the information in EHR is still narrative. This chapter describes the foundation of
doi:10.1007/978-1-84882-448-5_16
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