International Journal of Medical Informatics
Volume 77, Issue 9 , Pages 602-612 , September 2008

Randomized controlled trial of an automated problem list with improved sensitivity

  • Stéphane M. Meystre

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: University of Utah, Department of Biomedical Informatics, 26 South 2000 East, HSEB Suite 5700, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-5750, United States. Tel.: +1 801 581 4080; fax: +1 801 581 4297.
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  • Peter J. Haug

Received 1 November 2006 ,Revised 10 December 2007 ,Accepted 10 December 2007.

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    Screen capture of the “Problems” module in the HELP2 system. The source document for the problem pulmonary edema is displayed, with the source sentence highlighted in red (underlined in this grayscale

    Screen capture of the “Problems” module in the HELP2 system. The source document for the problem pulmonary edema is displayed, with the source sentence highlighted in red (underlined in this grayscale figure). (For interpretation of the references to color in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the web version of the article.)

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    Documents and problem list review process with analysis examples.

    Documents and problem list review process with analysis examples.

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    Number and proportion of manually added or proposed and subsequently modified medical problems.

    Number and proportion of manually added or proposed and subsequently modified medical problems.

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    Measurements in all patients, with means and 95% confidence intervals. Results of potential problem lists (i.e., problems that remained proposed included) are also displayed.

    Measurements in all patients, with means and 95% confidence intervals. Results of potential problem lists (i.e., problems that remained proposed included) are also displayed.

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    Measurements in the ICU patients, with means and 95% confidence intervals. Results of potential problem lists (i.e., problems that remained proposed included) are also displayed.

    Measurements in the ICU patients, with means and 95% confidence intervals. Results of potential problem lists (i.e., problems that remained proposed included) are also displayed.

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    Measurements in the cardiovascular surgery patients, with means and 95% confidence intervals. Results of potential problem lists (i.e., problems that remained proposed included) are also displayed.

    Measurements in the cardiovascular surgery patients, with means and 95% confidence intervals. Results of potential problem lists (i.e., problems that remained proposed included) are also displayed.

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    Logarithmic plot of the distribution of timeliness (in h).

    Logarithmic plot of the distribution of timeliness (in h).

PII: S1386-5056(07)00212-2

doi: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2007.12.001

International Journal of Medical Informatics
Volume 77, Issue 9 , Pages 602-612 , September 2008