Representing the UMLS as an object-oriented database: Modeling issues and advantages

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 66-80

  Gu, Huanying ^a   Perl, Yehoshua ^b   Geller, James ^b   Halper, Michael ^c   Liu, Li Min ^b   Cimino, James J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^b NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c KEAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DATA BASE; INFORMATION SYSTEM; LINGUISTICS; MODEL; SEMANTICS;

EID: 0033987845     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.2000.0070066     Document Type: Article

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