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  • Title: Extracting structured medication event information from discharge summaries.
    Author: Gold S, Elhadad N, Zhu X, Cimino JJ, Hripcsak G.
    Journal: AMIA Annu Symp Proc; 2008 Nov 06; 2008():237-41. PubMed ID: 18999147.
    Abstract:
    We present a method that extracts medication information from discharge summaries. The program relies on parsing rules written as a set of regular expressions and on a user-configurable drug lexicon. Our evaluation shows a precision of 94% and recall of 83% in the extraction of medication information. We use a broader definition of medication information than previous studies, including drug names appearing with and without dosage information, misspelled drug names, and contextual information.
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