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medExtractR: A medication extraction algorithm for electronic health records using the R programming language
2019-09-23
health informatics
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ObjectiveWe developed medExtractR, a natural language processing system to extract medication dose and timing information from clinical notes. Our system facilitates creation of medication-specific research datasets from electronic health records. Materials and MethodsWritten using the R programming language, medExtractR combines lexicon dictionaries and regular expression patterns to identify relevant medication information ( drug entities). The system is designed to extract particular medicat...
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