[Corpora-List] seeking corpora of medical records

[Kevin B. Cohen]

John,

A set of decedent records--pathology reports, specifically--was formerly
available, but has since been withdrawn for medicolegal/ethical reasons.  A
cautionary tale for corpus builders...

The data set from John Pestian et al. that Chris Brew mentioned is currently
the only publicly available medical record corpus that I am aware of.

Kev

On 9/20/07, John Aberdeen <aberdeen at mitre.org> wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> I'm seeking English-language text corpora of medical records.
> Typically medical records are unavailable to researchers due to
> privacy laws. However, medical records of deceased individuals are
> sometimes available without restriction. One of my colleagues
> believes she has heard of a corpus originating in the UK consisting
> of the medical records of deceased persons, but does not know the
> details. Does anyone know about this corpus, or similar corpora of
> medical records that are available for research purposes?
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
>
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K. B. Cohen
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Center for Computational Pharmacology
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