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Table 2 Quantitative comparison of ICU nursing narratives.

From: Characteristics of Finnish and Swedish intensive care nursing narratives: a comparative analysis to support the development of clinical language technologies

 

Finland (Finnish)

Sweden (Swedish)

Health records

514 (496 unique patients)

379 (333 unique patients)

Daily documents (i.e., daily notes about a patient)

5,915 (17,103 shifts)

4,700

Tokens

1,227,909

1,959,271

Types (i.e., unique tokens) before/after FinCG/GTA

63,328 / 38,649

– / 41,883

Tokens per patient / Tokens per daily document

  

Minimum

540 / 0

92 / 5

Maximum

14,118 / 915

36,830 / 9,389

Average

2,389 / 208

5,169 / 417

Standard deviation

1,635 / 87

5,271 / 239

The number of bigrams

368,166 (275,205 after FinCG)

469,455 (344,127 after GTA)

The number of trigrams

745,407 (356,307 after FinCG)

1,064,944 (905,539 after GTA)

Proportion of pronouns after FinCG/GTA

< 1%

2%

Proportion of nouns after FinCG/GTA

7%

27%

Proportion of verbs after FinCG/GTA

11%

11%