Auditing the Unified Medical Language System with semantic methods

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 41-51

  Cimino, James J ^a,a,b  

^a The New York Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^b Atchley Pavilion ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONCEPT FORMATION; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL INFORMATION; SEMANTICS; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0031981003     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1998.0050041     Document Type: Article

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