Assessing the similarity of surface linguistic features related to epilepsy across pediatric hospitals.
The constant progress in computational linguistic methods provides amazing opportunities for discovering information in clinical text and enables the clinical scientist to explore novel approaches to care. However, these new approaches need evaluation. We describe an automated system to compare descriptions of epilepsy patients at three different organizations: Cincinnati Children's Hospital, the Children's Hospital Colorado, and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. To our knowledge, there have been no similar previous [...]
Author(s): Connolly, Brian, Matykiewicz, Pawel, Bretonnel Cohen, K, Standridge, Shannon M, Glauser, Tracy A, Dlugos, Dennis J, Koh, Susan, Tham, Eric, Pestian, John
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2013-002601