Medical terminologies that work: The example of MeSH

I-SPAN 2009 - The 10th International Symposium on Pervasive Systems, Algorithms, and Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 380-384

  Nelson, Stuart J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Identifiers; Medical informatics; Relationships; Terminologies

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL LITERATURE; CLINICAL PRACTICES; COMPLEX ENGINEERING; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM; HIGH QUALITY; IDENTIFIERS; IN-BUILDINGS; INFORMATION MODELS; LITERATURE REVIEWS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL SUBJECT HEADINGS; MEDICAL TERMINOLOGIES; MEDLINE; SIMILARITY MEASURE; USER NEED; WORKING SYSTEMS;

COMPLEXATION; MINING;

TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 77949826007     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/I-SPAN.2009.84     Document Type: Conference Paper

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