The NCI Thesaurus quality assurance life cycle

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 530-539

  de Coronado, Sherri ^a   Wright, Lawrence W ^a   Fragoso, Gilberto ^a   Haber, Margaret W ^a   Hahn Dantona, Elizabeth A ^b   Hartel, Francis W ^a   Quan, Sharon L ^b   Safran, Tracy ^c   Thomas, Nicole ^b   Whiteman, Lori ^b  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

^c SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedical informatics; Biomedical vocabulary; Cancer information; Controlled terminology; Ontology development; Quality assurance

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS; BIOMEDICAL VOCABULARY; CANCER INFORMATION; CONTROLLED TERMINOLOGY; ONTOLOGY DEVELOPMENT;

BIOINFORMATICS; FLOW PATTERNS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; TELEMEDICINE; TERMINOLOGY; THESAURI; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

ONTOLOGY;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CANCER RESEARCH; CLINICAL STUDY; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTENT VALIDITY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LINGUISTICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; METHODOLOGY; NOMENCLATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; QUALITY CONTROL; STANDARD; VALIDATION PROCESS;

NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (U.S.); TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; UNITED STATES; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 65649108917     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2009.01.003     Document Type: Article

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