Development of a cross-thesaurus with Internet-based refinement supported by UMLS

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 29-41

  Dessena, Stefano ^a   Rossi Mori, Angelo ^a   Galeazzi, Elena ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

CEN TC251 WG2; GALEN; Standardisation; Terminology; Thesauri development; UMLS

Indexed keywords

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); HEALTH CARE; INTERNET; STANDARDIZATION; TERMINOLOGY; THESAURI;

CROSS-THESAURI DEVELOPMENT;

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; INTERNET; LINGUISTICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WRITING;

DATABASES; FORMS AND RECORDS CONTROL; HUMANS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; TERMINOLOGY; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 0344096603     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1386-5056(98)00092-6     Document Type: Article

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