“Boston researchers reported today a novel use for electronic medical records — using data in patient records, they say they were able to identify likely victims of domestic abuse an average of two years before a diagnosis was actually made.
Ben Reis, Dr. Isaac Kohane, and Dr. Kenneth Mandl of Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School studied six years of hospital admissions and emergency visits for patients over 18 years old. Based on the patient’s history, including injuries and assaults, they determined whether patients met a definition of domestic abuse. Then they looked at actual diagnoses of domestic abuse.”
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Elizabeth Cooney, Boston Globe, 29 September 2009
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