Auditing complex concepts of SNOMED using a refined hierarchical abstraction network

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-14

  Wang, Yue ^a   Halper, Michael ^b   Wei, Duo ^c   Gu, Huanying ^d   Perl, Yehoshua ^a   Xu, Junchuan ^a   Elhanan, Gai ^a,e   Chen, Yan ^f   Spackman, Kent A ^g   Case, James T ^h   Hripcsak, George ⁱ  

^a University Heights   (United States)

^b NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c RICHARD STOCKTON COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^d NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e Halfpenny Technologies Inc   (United States)

^f CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^g NLM/NIH ^*  (Denmark)

^h NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

ⁱ NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Abstraction network; Auditing; Complex concept; Group auditing; Neighborhood auditing; Partitioning; Quality assurance; SNOMED; Taxonomy; Terminology

Indexed keywords

AUDITING; COMPLEX CONCEPT; GROUP AUDITING; NEIGHBORHOOD AUDITING; PARTITIONING; SNOMED;

ABSTRACTING; QUALITY ASSURANCE; TAXONOMIES; TERMINOLOGY;

MANAGEMENT;

ARTICLE; CODING AND CLASSIFICATION; DATA PROCESSING; FISHER EXACT TEST; MEDICAL AUDIT; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTEMATIZED NOMENCLATURE OF MEDICINE; TAXONOMY;

MODELS, THEORETICAL; SYSTEMATIZED NOMENCLATURE OF MEDICINE; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 84856375635     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2011.08.016     Document Type: Article

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