Patent Document ID: 8650148
Application ID: 12931077
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method to produce a result, embodied in a digital computer, of processing an electronic representation of a data structure comprising one or more data elements representing the contents of existing medical reports or other texts to be classified by assigning and electronically outputting a collection of one or more discrete codes for each medical report or other text, such report or text being either a single document, or a group of closely related documents pertaining to a single case, comprising the steps of: (a) obtaining multiple candidate codes for a report that represent attempts to code the same report using the same system of codes using different coding methods, which can comprise coding done by humans and by computers; (b) using statistical methods to choose the best candidate code; (c) using statistical methods to quantify the dispersion otherwise stated as disagreement among the candidate codes; (d) outputting or storing an electronic representation of the chosen candidate code and of the dispersion (disagreement).