Exploring and developing consumer health vocabularies

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 24-29

  Zeng, Qing T ^a   Tse, Tony ^b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONSUMER; CULTURAL FACTOR; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LINGUISTICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; NOMENCLATURE; POINT OF CARE TESTING; REVIEW;

EID: 29244475050     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M1761     Document Type: Article

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