Evaluation of the Unified Medical Language System as a medical knowledge source

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 76-87

  Bodenreider, Oliver ^a   Burgun, Anita ^b   Botti, Geneviève ^c   Fieschi, Marius ^c   Le Beux, Pierre ^b   Kohler, François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^b Inst de Rech Contre le Cancer IRCC   (France)

^c TIMONE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CODING; CONCEPT FORMATION; LANGUAGE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; SEMANTICS;

EID: 0031978570     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1998.0050076     Document Type: Article

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