Getting the foot out of the pelvis: Modeling problems affecting use of SNOMED CT hierarchies in practical applications

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 432-440

  Rector, Alan L ^a   Brandt, Sam ^b   Schneider, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISEASE; ALLERGY; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ENGINEERING; ERROR; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HEART INFARCTION; HOMEOSTASIS; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE STRUCTURE; HYPERTENSION; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; NEUROPATHY; PANCREAS DISEASE; PAPILLEDEMA; QUALITY CONTROL; SEMANTICS; SKIN DISEASE; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; SYSTEMATIZED NOMENCLATURE OF MEDICINE; SYSTEMIC DISEASE;

DISEASE; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SYSTEMATIZED NOMENCLATURE OF MEDICINE;

EID: 79959668010     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2010-000045     Document Type: Article

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