Creating an online dictionary of abbreviations from MEDLINE

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 612-620

  Chang, Jeffrey T ^a   Schütze, Hinrich ^a   Altman, Russ B ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA BASE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDLINE; NOMENCLATURE; SCORING SYSTEM;

ABBREVIATIONS; ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING; ALGORITHMS; DICTIONARIES; LOGISTIC MODELS; MEDLINE;

EID: 0036830301     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M1139     Document Type: Article

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