SNOMED-Encoded surgical pathology databases: A tool for epidemiologic investigation

Modern Pathology

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 944-950

  Berman, Jules J ^a,c   Moore, G William ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^c BALTIMORE VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Coding; Database; Epidemiology; Incidence; Nomenclature; Report; SNOMED

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA BASE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

DISEASE; HUMANS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PATHOLOGY, SURGICAL;

EID: 0029758704     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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