Comparing heterogeneous SNOMED CT coding of clinical research concepts by examining normalized expressions

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1062-1069

  Andrews, James E ^a   Patrick, Timothy B ^b   Richesson, Rachel L ^c   Brown, Hana ^a   Krischer, Jeffrey P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

CliniClue Browser; Coding consistency; Controlled terminologies; Semantic variation; SNOMED CT (Systemized Nomenclature of Medicine)

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION THEORY; PROGRAMMING THEORY; TERMINOLOGY;

CLINICLUE BROWSER; CODING CONSISTENCY; CONTROLLED TERMINOLOGIES; SEMANTIC VARIATION; SNOMED CT (SYSTEMIZED NOMENCLATURE OF MEDICINE);

ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CODING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCEPT ANALYSIS; NOMENCLATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS;

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING AS TOPIC; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; SYSTEMATIZED NOMENCLATURE OF MEDICINE;

EID: 55549084575     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2008.01.010     Document Type: Article

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