The decline and fall of Esperanto: Lessons for standards committees

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 444-446

  Patterson, Robert ^a,b   Huff, Stanley M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b Box 336 ^*  (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE; REVIEW; STANDARD;

EID: 0033368509     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1999.0060444     Document Type: Review

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