Benefits of an object-oriented database representation for controlled medical terminologies

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 283-303

  Gu, Huanying ^a   Halper, Michael ^b   Geller, James ^a   Perl, Yehoshua ^a  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b KEAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA BASE; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RECORD; METHODOLOGY; NOMENCLATURE; PATIENT INFORMATION;

EID: 0032770249     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1999.0060283     Document Type: Article

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