Negative findings in electronic health records and biomedical ontologies: A realist approach

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 76, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2007, Pages

  Ceusters, Werner ^a   Elkin, Peter ^b   Smith, Barry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Electronic health record; Negation; Negative findings; Ontology; Referent Tracking

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA WAREHOUSES; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; ONTOLOGY;

ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; NEGATIVE FINDINGS; PATIENT RECORDS; REFERENT TRACKING;

ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DATA ANALYSIS; EDUCATION PROGRAM; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL RECORD; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMATIZED NOMENCLATURE OF MEDICINE;

BALTIMORE; DOCUMENTATION; HUMANS; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; NEGATIVISM; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; WRITING;

EID: 35548940756     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2007.02.003     Document Type: Article

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