Auditing the Semantic Completeness of SNOMED CT Using Formal Concept Analysis

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 89-102

  Jiang, Guoqian ^a   Chute, Christopher G ^a  

^a Mayo Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONCEPT ANALYSIS; CONCEPT MAPPING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL AUDIT; NOMENCLATURE; OUTCOME VARIABLE; SEMANTICS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

MODELS, THEORETICAL; SEMANTICS; SUBJECT HEADINGS; SYSTEMATIZED NOMENCLATURE OF MEDICINE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 57149143054     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M2541     Document Type: Article

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