Lexically suggest, logically define: Quality assurance of the use of qualifiers and expected results of post-coordination in SNOMED CT

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 199-209

  Rector, Alan ^a   Iannone, Luigi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Knowledge representation; Ontology; Quality assurance; SNOMED; Terminology

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL COURSE; CLINICAL USAGE; CORE PROBLEMS; HIGH RATE; IN-LINE; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; MISCLASSIFICATIONS; MODULE-BASED; PATIENT CARE; POTENTIAL CONFLICT; PROXY MEASURE; SNOMED;

DISEASES; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; ONTOLOGY; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SEMANTICS; TERMINOLOGY;

TEACHING;

ACCURACY; ACUTE DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIGITAL FILTERING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SEMANTICS; SYSTEMATIZED NOMENCLATURE OF MEDICINE;

ALGORITHMS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; SYSTEMATIZED NOMENCLATURE OF MEDICINE; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 84858282667     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2011.10.002     Document Type: Article

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