An evaluation of medical knowledge contained in Wikipedia and its use in the LOINC database

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 283-287

  Friedlin, Jeff ^a   McDonald, Clement J ^a  

^a REGENSTRIEF INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; INTERNET; KNOWLEDGE BASE; LABORATORY AUTOMATION; LOGICAL OBSERVATION IDENTIFIERS NAMES AND CODES; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; SEARCH ENGINE; WEB BROWSER; WIKIPEDIA; ALGORITHM; BOOK; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NOMENCLATURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ENCYCLOPEDIAS AS TOPIC; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; LOGICAL OBSERVATION IDENTIFIERS NAMES AND CODES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 77955287366     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.2009.001180     Document Type: Article

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