title: Toward reflective management of emergency department chief complaint information.
abstract: An approach coined as "reflective information management" is presented as a technique for the management of emergency department chief complaint information. The architecture of a system integrating principles from this approach is described and its performance is evaluated in providing categorical information from free-text chief complaints for use, e.g., in automated syndromic surveillance.
authors.affiliation: Decision Systems Group, Brigham and Women'sHospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. samuli.niiranen@tut.fi
authors.forename: Samuli T
authors.initials: ST
authors.lastname: Niiranen
authors.forename: Jari M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Yli-Hietanen
authors.forename: Larry A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Nathanson
mesh_terms: D003199:Computer Systems; D004632:Emergency Medical Services; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D006801:Humans; D008490:Medical Informatics; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D009323:Natural Language Processing