Integrating SNOMED CT into the UMLS: An exploration of different views of synonymy and quality of editing

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 486-494

  Fung, Kin Wah ^a   Hole, William T ^a   Nelson, Stuart J ^a   Srinivasan, Suresh ^b   Powell, Tammy ^a   Roth, Laura ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b MSD Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EXPERT SYSTEM; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL EXPERT; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTEMATIZED NOMENCLATURE OF MEDICINE;

EID: 21544465601     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M1767     Document Type: Article

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