VA national drug file reference terminology: A cross-institutional content coverage study

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 107, Issue , 2004, Pages 477-481

  Brown, Steven H ^a,b   Elkin, Peter L ^c   Rosenbloom, S Trent ^b   Husser, Casey ^c   Bauer, Brent A ^c   Lincoln, Michael J ^a,e   Carter, John ^d   Erlbaum, Mark ^d   Tuttle, Mark S ^d  

^a DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^d APELON INC   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Controlled; Information Storage and Retrieval; Information Theory; Vocabulary

Indexed keywords

DATA DESCRIPTION; INFORMATION THEORY; MAPPING; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; TERMINOLOGY;

CLINICAL OPERATIONS; CONTROLLED; COVERAGE STUDIES; DESCRIPTION LOGIC; HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; POSITIVE PREDICTIVE VALUES; VOCABULARY; ALGORITHMICS; DESIGN PARAMETERS; FOOD SUPPLEMENTS; INITIAL DESIGN; POTENTIAL USERS;

TERMINOLOGY; INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 77649227391     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-949-3-477     Document Type: Article

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