Evaluation of the quality of information retrieval of clinical findings from a computerized patient database using a semantic terminological model

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 392-403

  Brown, Philip J B ^a,b   Sönksen, Peter ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Hethersett Surgery   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA BASE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MODEL; NOMENCLATURE; QUALITY CONTROL; SEMANTICS;

EID: 0343526800     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.2000.0070392     Document Type: Article

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