Visual summarisation of text for surveillance and situational awareness in hospitals

Suominen, Hanna; Hanlen, Leif

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Visual summarisation of text for surveillance and situational awareness in hospitals

Date

2013

Authors

Suominen, Hanna

Hanlen, Leif

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Abstract

Nosocomial infections (NIs, any infection that a patient contracts in a healthcare institution) cost 100; 000 lives and five billion dollars per year for 300 million Americans alone. Surveillance in hospitals holds the potential of reducing NI rates by mo