| word search performance for diagnoses of equine surgical colics in free-text electronic patient records. | the objectives of the current project were to: (1) identify limitations of search sensitivity and positive predictive value (ppv) for free-text surgical diagnoses included in electronic patient records maintained at the university of california, davis, veterinary medical teaching hospital (vmth), (2) develop procedural or programmable recommendations for removing these limitations, and (3) provide guidelines for effective search strategies for users performing aggregate searches using the vmth c ... | 1998 | 9604265 |