The Granularity of Medical Narratives and Its Effect on the Speed and Completeness of Information Retrieval
AUTOR(ES)
Tange, Huibert J.
FONTE
American Medical Informatics Association
RESUMO
Abstract Objective: Using electronic rather than paper-based record systems improves clinicians' information retrieval from patient narratives. However, few studies address how data should be organized for this purpose. Information retrieval from clinical narratives containing free text involves two steps: searching for a labeled segment and reading its content. The authors hypothesized that physicians can retrieve information better when clinical narratives are divided into many small, labeled segments (“high granularity”).
