Consumer Health Concepts That Do Not Map to the UMLS: Where Do They Fit?

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 496-505

  Keselman, Alla ^a,b   Smith, Catherine Arnott ^c   Divita, Guy ^a,d   Kim, Hyeoneui ^e   Browne, Allen C ^a   Leroy, Gondy ^f   Zeng Treitler, Qing ^e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b Aquilent Inc   (United States)

^c University of Wisconsin   (United States)

^d LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

^e BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSUMER; DEVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LEG; MALNUTRITION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MODEL; NOMENCLATURE; PAIN; SEMANTICS; SYMPTOM;

CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; HUMANS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM; VOCABULARY;

EID: 45849090792     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M2599     Document Type: Article

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