International Journal of Medical Informatics
Volume 79, Issue 8 , Pages 585-597 , August 2010

Extraction of standardized archetyped data from Electronic Health Record systems based on the Entity-Attribute-Value Model

Received 4 June 2009 ,Revised 29 April 2010 ,Accepted 30 April 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2010.04.007

International Journal of Medical Informatics
Volume 79, Issue 8 , Pages 585-597 , August 2010

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