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Table 3 Paired co-occurrences for the literature concept

From: Evidence in clinical reasoning: a computational linguistics analysis of 789,712 medical case summaries 1983–2012

Concept

Likelihood

review

86%

discussed

17%

knowledge

16%

report

14%

data; medical; cases

13%

previously

12%

similar; management; described

10%

Rare; therapeutic; compared; features

9%

presented; clinical

8%

related; benign; adult; condition; malignant; carcinoma; care; injury

7%

primary; associated; differential; different; possible; known; role; young; identified; important; risk; complications; children; common; pregnancy; study; tumor

6%

congenital; diagnosis; potential; origin; secondary; syndrome; disease; neck; suggest; factors; occurred; usually; treatment; history; process; group; cancer; surgery; disorder; type; single; isolated; course; infection; evaluation; oral; age; systemic

5%

evidence; lesions; body; girl; vascular; difficult; specific; considered; renal; typical; patient; caused; period; site; follow-up; early; combination; results; bilateral; pattern; acute; boy; nerve; procedure; successfully; bone; affected; chronic; posterior; characterized; technique; complex; absence; recurrent; observed; developed; rate; significant; respectively; year-old; symptoms; therapy; woman; man; time; human; signs; effective; operation; pulmonary; respiratory; cytoplasm

4%

liver; region; tissue; presence; skin; artery; resection; cerebral; imaging; severe; onset; resonance; distal; cardiac; transplantation; abdominal; failure; changes; lung; obtained; analysis; families; chemotherapy; reaction; complete; brain; performed; anterior; confirmed; mass; growth; response; consistent; pain; progressive; partial; muscle; examination; revealed; defect; heart; loss; demonstrated; increased; hospital; suspected; function; peripheral; fluid; administration

3%

MRI, CT, deficiency; biopsy; improved; weeks; tomography; control; test; positive; pressure; detected; ventricular; negative; normal; activity; blood; marked; showed; plasma; elevated; day

2%

decreased; serum; protein; mutations; mg; gene

1%