Citing EMERSE  


If you have used EMERSE for research, please support us by citing the following reference:

Hanauer DA, Mei Q, Law J, Khanna R, Zheng K. Supporting information retrieval from electronic health records: A report of University of Michigan's nine-year experience in developing and using the Electronic Medical Record Search Engine (EMERSE). J Biomed Inform. 2015 Jun;55:290-300. PMID: 25979153.


PubMed PDF Citation (RIS format)


In addition to the manuscript above, the following are also about the EMERSE system:

PDF   Hanauer DA, Barnholtz-Sloan JS, Beno MF, et al. Electronic Medical Record Search Engine (EMERSE): An Information Retrieval Tool for Supporting Cancer Research. JCO Clin Cancer Inform. 2020;4:454-463. doi:10.1200/CCI.19.00134

PDF   Hanauer DA. EMERSE: The Electronic Medical Record Search Engine. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2006:941.

PDF   Zheng K, Mei Q, Hanauer DA. Collaborative search in electronic health records. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2011 May 1;18(3):282-91.

PDF   Seyfried L, Hanauer DA, Nease D, Albeiruti R, Kavanagh J, Kales HC. Enhanced identification of eligibility for depression research using an electronic medical record search engine. Int J Med Inform. 2009 Dec;78(12):e13-8.

PDF   Yang L, Mei Q, Zheng K, Hanauer DA. Query log analysis of an electronic health record search engine. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2011;2011:915-24.

PDF   Reyes, C. Design, Implementation, and Usability of the Electronic Medical Record Search Engine (EMERSE) Tool. Master's Thesis, UC Irvine, 2021.

PDF   Reyes CN, Zheng K, Hanauer DA. Design, Implementation, and Usability of the Electronic Medical Record Search Engine (EMERSE) Tool. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2022

PDF   Wu DTY, Hanauer D, Murdock P, Vydiswaran VGV, Mei Q, Zheng K. Developing a Semantically Based Query Recommendation for an Electronic Medical Record Search Engine: Query Log Analysis and Design Implications. JMIR Form Res. 2023 Sep 15;7:e45376. doi: 10.2196/45376. PMID: 37713239; PMCID: PMC10541636.


Also, please consider acknowledging our generous supporters by including the following grant numbers in your papers:

When referencing EMERSE in any of your publications or other materials, you can use the following Research Acknowledgement:

Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health under Award Numbers U24CA204863 and P30CA046592, as well as the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under Award Numbers UL1TR000433 and UL1TR002240. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.


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