Articles: health.
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Pol. Arch. Med. Wewn. · May 2024
Practical use case of natural language processing for observational clinical research data retrieval from electronic health records: AssistMED project.
Electronic health records (EHRs) contain data valuable for clinical research. However, they are in textual format and require manual encoding to databases, which is a lengthy and costly process. Natural language processing (NLP) is a computational technique that allows for text analysis. ⋯ NLP utilization in EHRs may accelerate data acquisition and provide accurate information for retrospective studies.
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Historical Article
Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization.
WHO, as requested by its member states, launched the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) in 1974 to make life-saving vaccines available to all globally. To mark the 50-year anniversary of EPI, we sought to quantify the public health impact of vaccination globally since the programme's inception. ⋯ WHO.