Auditing consistency and usefulness of LOINC use among three large institutions - Using version spaces for grouping LOINC codes

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 658-666

  Lin, M C ^a   Vreeman, D J ^b,c   McDonald, Clement J ^e   Huff, S M ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b REGENSTRIEF INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^e National Library of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical laboratory information systems; Consistency; Controlled vocabulary; Data exchange standards; Evaluation research; LOINC; LOINC usage; Semantic interoperability; Usefulness

Indexed keywords

CONSISTENCY; DATA EXCHANGE STANDARD; EVALUATION RESEARCH; LABORATORY INFORMATION SYSTEM; LOINC; LOINC USAGE; SEMANTIC INTEROPERABILITY; USEFULNESS;

ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE; EMERGENCY ROOMS; MANAGEMENT; SEMANTICS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; THESAURI;

INTEROPERABILITY;

ARTICLE; CODING; DATA PROCESSING; FEASIBILITY STUDY; KNOWLEDGE; LOINC CODE; MEDICAL AUDIT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SEMANTICS;

CLINICAL AUDIT; CLINICAL CODING; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; LOGICAL OBSERVATION IDENTIFIERS NAMES AND CODES; MEDICAL INFORMATICS;

EID: 84865095603     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2012.01.008     Document Type: Article

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