Auditing as Part of the Terminology Design Life Cycle

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 676-690

  Min, Hua ^a,d   Perl, Yehoshua ^a   Chen, Yan ^a,c   Halper, Michael ^b   Geller, James ^a   Wang, Yue ^a  

^a University Heights   (United States)

^b KEAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; NOMENCLATURE; TAXONOMY;

BIOLOGY; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (U.S.); QUALITY CONTROL; TERMINOLOGY; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM; UNITED STATES; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 33750444971     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M2036     Document Type: Article

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