TY - JOUR PY - 2019// TI - An information retrieval approach to ICD-10 classification JO - Studies in health technology and informatics A1 - Park, Hee A1 - Castaño, José A1 - Ávila, Pilar A1 - Pérez, David A1 - Berinsky, Hernán A1 - Gambarte, Laura A1 - Luna, Daniel A1 - Otero, Carlos SP - 1564 EP - 1565 VL - 264 IS - N2 - ICD-10 (International Classification of Diseases 10th revision) is a classification code for diseases, signs and symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances, and external causes of injury or diseases. This paper describes an automatic information retrieval approach to map free-text disease descriptions to ICD-10 codes. We use the Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires (HIBA) terminology data mapped to ICD-10 codes as indexed data to find an appropriate ICD-10 code using search engine similarity metrics.

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LA - en SN - 0926-9630 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/SHTI190536 ID - ref1 ER -