Development of the Logical Observation Identifier Names and Codes (LOINC) vocabulary

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 276-292

  Huff, Stanley M ^a   Rocha, Roberto A ^a   Mcdonald, Clement J ^a   De Moor, Georges J E ^a   Fiers, Tom ^a   Bidgood Jr , W Dean ^a   Forrey, Arden W ^a   Francis, William G ^a   Tracy, Wayne R ^a   Leavelle, Dennis ^a   Stalling, Frank ^a   Griffin, Brian ^a   Maloney, Pat ^a   Leland, Diane ^a   Charles, Linda ^a   Hutchins, Kathy ^a   Baenziger, John ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CODING; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SYSTEM; INFORMATION PROCESSING;

EID: 0031897761     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1998.0050276     Document Type: Article

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