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Table 4 Emerging bigrams in the MI journal corpus.

From: SYMBIOmatics: Synergies in Medical Informatics and Bioinformatics – exploring current scientific literature for emerging topics

  

Top 15 rank

  

Top 15 rank

 

Doc. Freq.

emerg-ing

2000–2005

1990–1999

 

Doc. Freq.

emerg-ing

2000–2005

1990–1999

information system

899

 

1

1

patient safety

64

1

75

 

health care

881

 

2

2

gene expression

44

2

87

 

decision support

536

 

3

3

medical error

41

3

92

 

medical record

445

 

4

4

digital assistant

35

4

94

 

patient record

427

 

5

5

personal digital

35

5

95

 

medical informatics

397

 

6

6

disease management

31

6

  

clinical information

330

 

7

7

open source

28

7

  

health information

294

 

8

 

provider order

25

8

  

patient care

285

 

9

8

clinical documentation

23

9

  

support system

284

 

10

9

clinical document

23

10

  

electronic medical

261

 

11

 

support vector

23

11

  

information technology

245

 

12

 

vector machine

22

12

  

clinical practice

210

 

13

10

expression datum

21

13

  

medical information

203

 

14

 

study objective

21

14

  

neural network

203

  

11

snomed ct

20

15

100

 

knowledge base

198

 

15

      

natural language

196

  

12

     

clinical datum

194

  

13

     

hospital information

191

 

16

14

     

electronic patient

180

  

15

     
  1. The table shows bigrams from the MI journal corpus (ref. to table 1 for details). The table shows that emerging topics played only a minor role in recent documents.
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