Comparing and evaluating terminology services application programming interfaces: RxNav, UMLSKS and LexBIG

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 714-719

  Pathak, Jyotishman ^a   Peters, Lee ^b   Chute, Christopher G ^a   Bodenreider, Olivier ^b  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CETIRIZINE; GENERIC DRUG; ISPAGULA; SENNA EXTRACT;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOCUMENTATION; DRUG INFORMATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; KNOWLEDGE; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; NOMENCLATURE; PRESCRIPTION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS;

HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 78650425307     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.2009.001149     Document Type: Article

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