Are we talking about the same patient?

Khawllah Roussi; Vanessa Soussa; Karen Dunn Lopez; Abhinaya Balasubramanian; Gail M Keenan; Michel Burton; Neil Bahroos; Barbara DiEugenio; Andrew D Boyd

Are we talking about the same patient?

Stud Health Technol Inform. 2015:216:1059.

Authors

Khawllah Roussi¹, Vanessa Soussa², Karen Dunn Lopez², Abhinaya Balasubramanian³, Gail M Keenan⁴, Michel Burton⁵, Neil Bahroos⁵, Barbara DiEugenio³, Andrew D Boyd¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biomedical and Health Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), Chicago, Illinois, USA.
² Department of Health System Science, UIC.
³ Department of Computer Science, UIC.
⁴ Department of Health Care Environments and Systems, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
⁵ Department of Medicine, UIC.

PMID: 26262358

Abstract

The objective of this study is to determine the degree of similarities between the clinical terms used by physicians and nurses in their documentation.

Publication types

Comparative Study
Evaluation Study

MeSH terms

Electronic Health Records / classification*
Electronic Health Records / statistics & numerical data
Natural Language Processing
Nurses / statistics & numerical data
Nursing Records / classification*
Nursing Records / statistics & numerical data
Patient Discharge Summaries / classification*
Patient Discharge Summaries / statistics & numerical data
Physicians / statistics & numerical data*
Semantics*
Standardized Nursing Terminology*
Terminology as Topic
Unified Medical Language System
United States