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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomed Inform. 2017 Nov 21;77:34–49. doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2017.11.011

Table 5.

Application areas of clinical IE and the corresponding number of publications.

Application Areas No. of Papers
Disease study areas
Neoplasms 27
Diseases of the circulatory system 23
Diseases of the digestive system 12
Diseases of the nervous system 12
Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases, and immunity disorders 12
Mental disorders 12
Diseases of the respiratory system 11
Injury and poisoning 8
Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue 6
Symptoms, signs, and ill-defined conditions 5
Infectious and parasitic diseases 3
Diseases of the genitourinary system 2
Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs 1
External causes of injury and supplemental classification 1
Drug-related studies
Adverse drug reaction 3
Medication extraction 9
Drug exposure 2
Drug-treatment classification 1
Dosage extraction 3
Clinical workflow optimization
Adverse events 5
Quality control 8
Patient management 6
Measurement value extraction 8