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Ann Kristin Rotegård1, Laura Slaughter, Cornelia M Ruland
1Center for Shared Decision Making and Nursing Research, Rikshospitalet-Radiumhospitalet HF, Oslo, Norway.
Abstract:
Systems that integrate information from both the patients and health professionals require bi-directional term translation. We manually extracted nursing terms from 25 randomly selected cancer patients' charts that expressed symptoms and mapped these to a set of patient-oriented symptoms from a cancer support system. We found that 40% of the nursing terms were synonyms of patient expressions that could be mapped directly; however 38% of the nursing terms required a map to more than one patient expression. In this study, we gained an understanding of the link between nursing and patient language that is needed for future system development.
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