Unlocking clinical data from narrative reports: a study of natural language processing.

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Published in Ann Intern Med on May 01, 1995

Authors

G Hripcsak1, C Friedman, P O Alderson, W DuMouchel, S B Johnson, P D Clayton

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medical Informatics, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA.

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