Douglas W. Blayney
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The registry case finding engine: an automated tool to identify cancer cases from unstructured, free-text pathology reports and clinical notes.
J Am Coll Surg. 2007; (5): 690-7
The American College of Surgeons mandates the maintenance of a cancer registry for hospitals seeking accreditation. At the University of Michigan Health System, more than 90% of all registry patients are identified by manual review, a method common to many institutions. We hypothesized that an automated computer system could accurately perform this time- and labor-intensive task. We created a tool to automatically scan free-text medical documents for terms relevant to cancer.
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