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It is quite commonplace to observe nowadays how medical records are reduced to a huge mass of poorly structured information, that is to say a mixture of texts, images and numbers. Within medical institutions, particularly hospitals, the situation becomes worse when there is the least attempt to retrieve specific, relevant information, let us say, first patient-to-patient and then by medical entities or on an institutional statistical basis. It is not always a surprise why the bibliographical research is so paramount, since it is generally accepted that the easiest accessible relevant information is from medical literature thanks to powerful tools like MEDLINE, Excerpta Medica or Pergamon.
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Scherrer, JR. (1991). Medical Languages: Use, Definition and Processing in Ward Information Systems (WIS). In: Adlassnig, KP., Grabner, G., Bengtsson, S., Hansen, R. (eds) Medical Informatics Europe 1991. Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics, vol 45. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93503-9_3
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