Heterogeneous but "standard" coding systems for adverse events: Issues in achieving interoperability between apples and oranges

Contemporary Clinical Trials

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 635-645

  Richesson, Rachel L ^a   Fung, Kin Wah ^b   Krischer, Jeffrey P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Adverse effects; Biomedical research; Forms and records control; Informatics; Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine; Terminology

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CODING; CONCEPT ANALYSIS; DRUG MONITORING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; REFERENCE DATABASE; STANDARD; SYSTEMATIZED NOMENCLATURE OF MEDICINE;

ADVERSE DRUG REACTION REPORTING SYSTEMS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; FORMS AND RECORDS CONTROL; HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; HUMANS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS COMPUTING; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; SYSTEMATIZED NOMENCLATURE OF MEDICINE; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 49749090086     PISSN: 15517144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2008.02.004     Document Type: Article

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