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Integrating existing natural language processing tools for medication extraction from discharge summaries

Son Doan, Lisa Bastarache, Sergio Klimkowski, Joshua C. Denny, Hua Xu

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association · 2010 · 80 citations · 10 references

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Abstract

The results show that the existing MedEx system, together with other NLP components, can extract medication information in clinical text from institutions other than the site of algorithm development with reasonable performance.

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