Automatically identifying health outcome information in MEDLINE records.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Understanding the effect of a given intervention on the patient's health outcome is one of the key elements in providing optimal patient care. This study presents a methodology for automatic identification of outcomes-related information in medical text and evaluates its potential in satisfying clinical information needs related to health care outcomes.

Design

An annotation scheme based on an evidence-based medicine model for critical appraisal of evidence was developed and used to annotate 633 MEDLINE citations. Textual, structural, and meta-information features essential to outcome identification were learned from the created collection and used to develop an automatic system. Accuracy of automatic outcome identification was assessed in an intrinsic evaluation an

SUBMITTER: Demner-Fushman D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1380197 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Jan-Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature