Updating the Read Codes: User-interactive Maintenance of a Dynamic Clinical Vocabulary

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 465-472

  Robinson, David ^a   Schulz, Erich ^a   Brown, Philip ^a   Price, Colin ^a  

^a NHS Centre for Coding and Classification   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HISTORY; INFORMATION SYSTEM; LINGUISTICS;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FEEDBACK; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 0031279571     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1997.0040465     Document Type: Article

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