Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
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J Am Med Inform Assoc · Mar 2014
From vital signs to clinical outcomes for patients with sepsis: a machine learning basis for a clinical decision support system.
To develop a decision support system to identify patients at high risk for hyperlactatemia based upon routinely measured vital signs and laboratory studies. ⋯ Effective predictions of lactate levels and mortality risk can be provided with a few clinical variables when the temporal aspect and variability of patient data are considered.
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J Am Med Inform Assoc · Mar 2014
A sense inventory for clinical abbreviations and acronyms created using clinical notes and medical dictionary resources.
To create a sense inventory of abbreviations and acronyms from clinical texts. ⋯ Clinical sense inventories of abbreviations and acronyms created using clinical notes and medical dictionary resources demonstrate challenges with term coverage and resource integration. Further work is needed to help with standardizing abbreviations and acronyms in clinical care and biomedicine to facilitate automated processes such as text-mining and information extraction.