Toward an ontology-based framework for clinical research databases

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 48-58

  Megan Kong, Y ^a   Dahlke, Carl ^b   Xiang, Qun ^a   Qian, Yu ^a   Karp, David ^c   Scheuermann, Richard H ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Health Information Systems   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Assay; Biomaterial transformation; Clinical trials; Conceptual model; Data transformation; Ontology

Indexed keywords

BASIC FORMAL ONTOLOGIES; BIOMEDICAL INVESTIGATIONS; CASE REPORT FORMS; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLEX DOMAINS; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; DATA DICTIONARY; DATA MODELS; DATA TRANSFORMATION; INTERVENTIONAL; LOGICAL STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR CHARACTERISTICS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; ONTOLOGY-BASED; PROCUREMENT PROCEDURES; STUDY DESIGN;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; EXPERIMENTS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; METADATA;

ONTOLOGY;

BIOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; ASSAY; BIOMEDICINE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DATA BASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; IMMUNOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 79952023018     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2010.05.001     Document Type: Article

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