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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Apr 30.
Published in final edited form as: Comput Inform Nurs. 2009 Jul-Aug;27(4):215–225. doi: 10.1097/NCN.0b013e3181a91b58

Table 3.

Examples of extracted terms with MedLEE tags

Term Tag
vital signs bodymeas
heart rate bodymeas
oxygen sat bodymeas
nebulizer device
monitor device
Foley catheter device
face mask device
chest tube device
patient-controlled analgesia device
potassium labtest
erythrocyte sedimentation rate labtest
hemoglobin labtest
platelets labtest
complete blood count labtest
Tylenol med
Benadryl med
Rituxan med
packed red blood cells med
oxygen med
ara-C med
gentamycin med
vancomycin med
computerized axial tomography procedure
telemetry procedure
chemotherapy procedure
assessment procedure
liver function test procedure
magnetic resonance imaging procedure
intervention procedure
biopsy procedure
blood culture procedure
laboratory test procedure
sputum culture procedure
transfusion procedure
nursing therapy procedure
pain measurement procedure
assessment procedure
x-ray procedure
clothing assistance procedure
supportive care procedure
prevention procedure
toilet procedure procedure
skin care procedure
pain scale procedure
adverse reaction problem
emesis problem
shortness of breath problem
chill problem
palpable problem
discomfort problem
bleeding problem
febrile problem
chest pain problem
wheezing problem
abdominal pain problem
dizzy problem
redness finding
good finding
distended finding
elevated finding
no change finding
asymptomatic finding
streaky finding
floating finding
flushing finding
intact finding
non-infectious finding
watery finding
alert finding
withdrawn finding
active disease normalfinding
afebrile normalfinding
alert normalfinding
comfortable normalfinding
intact normalfinding
within normal limits normalfinding
alert and oriented times 3 normalfinding
doing well normalfinding
pupils equal normalfinding
complaint status
stable status
pending status
previous status
ability status
again status
resident status