[Corpora-List] Near Real-time Noisy Clinical Progress Note Cleaning

[wilson@csse]

The urge amongst clinicians for faster text entry while attempting to retain
semantic clarity has contributed to the noisy structure of progress notes. A
progress note is considered as containing noise when there is difference
between the surface form of the entered text and the intended content. For
instance, when a clinician enters "blodd presure" or "bp" instead of "blood
pressure", or an acronym such as "ARF" that could mean "Acute Renal Failure"
or "Acute Rheumatic Fever". The more noise clinicians introduce in their
progress notes, the less intelligible the notes will become. Some of the
common types of noise are abbreviation, misspelling and punctuation error.
The alpha version of a system for progress note cleaning has been developed
to remove noise from progress notes in near real-time as they are being
entered. For more information, visit
http://ontology.csse.uwa.edu.au/research/application_clinicalintellipad.pl.


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Dr Wilson Wong
Center for Software Practice
The University of Western Australia
35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY 6009
Western Australia
(fax)               +61-8-6488-1089
(email)           wilson at csse.uwa.edu.au
(homepage)   http://ontology.csse.uwa.edu.au
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