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To analyze the terms used by nurses in a variety of data sources and to test the feasibility of using SNOMED III to represent nursing terms.

To test the effect of diagnosis on training an artificial neural network (ANN) to predict length of stay (LOS) for psychiatric patients involuntarily admitted to a state hospital.

Develop a prototype expert system for preterm birth risk assessment of pregnant women. Normal gestation involves a term of 40 weeks, but because 8-12% of the newborns in the United States are delivered prior to 37 weeks' gestation, problems associated with prematurity continue to plague individuals, families, and the health care system.

To evaluate the potential ability of computerized information systems (ISs) to identify and prevent adverse events in medical patients.

The bibliographic database MEDLINE, produced by the National Library of Medicine (NLM), is a computerized index to the world's biomedical literature. The database can be searched back to 1966 and contains 6.8 million records. The various means of access are divided, for the purposes of this article, into three categories: logging onto a remote host computer by telephone and modem or by the Internet; subscribing to part or all of [...]

Development and evaluation of computerized concurrent utilization review (UR) support taking advantage of a clinically rich computerized patient database.