Unified Medical Language System Coverage of Emergency-medicine Chief Complaints

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1319-1323

  Travers, Debbie A ^a   Haas, Stephanie W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

emergency medicine; terminology; Unified Medical Language System

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CALCULATION; DATA ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; LINGUISTICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMATIZED NOMENCLATURE OF MEDICINE;

DATA COLLECTION; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; NORTH CAROLINA; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 33751220791     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2006.06.054     Document Type: Article

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