UMLS-based conceptual queries to biomedical information databases: An overview of the project ARIANE

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 52-61

  Joubert, Michel ^a,b   Fieschi, Marius ^a,b   Robert, Jean Jacques ^a   Volot, Françoise ^a,b   Fieschi, Dominique ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b TIMONE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; CONCEPT FORMATION; DATA BASE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 0031957957     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1998.0050052     Document Type: Article

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