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Fig. 10.3.13 A medical record.

In the second part of the medical record, there is narrative information. In the narrative
section, some doctor or nurse has written down some characterization of a medical event
—a diagnosis, a procedure, an observation, and so forth.


In the third section of the medical record are lab results that are relevant to the reason
why the patient is in medical care.


Fig. 10.3.14 shows a typical medical record.


Chapter 10.3: Analytics From Nonrepetitive Data
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