Evaluating the Coverage of Controlled Health Data Terminologies: Report on the Results of the NLM/AHCPR Large Scale Vocabulary Test

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 484-500

  Humphreys, Betsy L ^a   McCray, Alexa T ^a   Cheh, May L ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; EVALUATION; GOVERNMENT; LIBRARY; LINGUISTICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL RECORD; NOMENCLATURE; UNITED STATES;

EVALUATION STUDIES; MEDICAL RECORDS; NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE (U.S.); TERMINOLOGY; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 0031280426     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1997.0040484     Document Type: Article

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