Electronic surveillance of patient safety events using natural language processing.
Ozonoff Al, Milliren Carly E, Fournier Kerri, +6 more·Health informatics journal
OBJECTIVE: We describe our approach to surveillance of reportable safety events captured in hospital data including free-text clinical notes. We hypothesize that a) some patient safety events are documented only in the clinical notes and not in any other accessible source; and b) large-scale abstraction of event data f…