A study of abbreviations in clinical notes.
Xu H, Stetson P, Friedman C. A study of abbreviations in clinical notes. AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings 2007, 2007: 821-5. PMID: 18693951, PMCID: PMC2655910.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsUnified Medical Language SystemNatural language processing systemsLanguage processing systemNarrative clinical notesDetection methodClinical notesDifferent knowledge sourcesSense inventoryDomain expertsNLP systemsCorrect sensesDecision supportText corporaKnowledge sourcesError detectionProcessing systemBiomedical literatureStudy of abbreviationsLanguage systemPatient informationAmbiguity rateBetter detection methodsDatabaseAnnotationAbbreviations