title: Mapping nurses' natural language to oncology patients' symptom expressions.
abstract: Systems that integrate information from both the patients and health professionals require bi-directional term translation. We manually extracted nursing terms from 25 randomly selected cancer patients' charts that expressed symptoms and mapped these to a set of patient-oriented symptoms from a cancer support system. We found that 40% of the nursing terms were synonyms of patient expressions that could be mapped directly; however 38% of the nursing terms required a map to more than one patient expression. In this study, we gained an understanding of the link between nursing and patient language that is needed for future system development.
authors.affiliation: Center for Shared Decision Making and Nursing Research, Rikshospitalet-Radiumhospitalet HF, Oslo, Norway.
authors.forename: Ann Kristin
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Rotegård
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Slaughter
authors.forename: Cornelia M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Ruland
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008485:Medical Audit; D008495:Medical Oncology; D009664:Norway; D009732:Nursing Care; D009733:Nursing Diagnosis