title: An indexing scheme for medical free text searches: a prototype.
abstract: At the Ohio State University Medical Center, a significant amount of valuable data pertaining to a patient's visit is stored in the form of dictated reports such as discharge summaries, cardiology reports, and radiology reports. We have implemented conceptual search capability to facilitate more comprehensive content mining from clinical free text.
authors.affiliation: The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA.
authors.forename: Selnur
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Erdal
authors.forename: Jyoti
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kamal
mesh_terms: D000043:Abstracting and Indexing; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D017432:Unified Medical Language System