Toward reflective management of emergency department chief complaint information.
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.
Niiranen
Samuli T
ST
Decision Systems Group, Brigham and Women'sHospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. samuli.niiranen@tut.fi
Yli-Hietanen
Jari M
JM
Nathanson
Larry A
LA
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