Standardising clinical data elements

International Journal of Functional Informatics and Personalised Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 314-341

  Nahm, Meredith ^a,b   Walden, Anita ^a   McCourt, Brian ^c   Pieper, Karen ^c   Honeycutt, Emily ^c   Hamilton, Carol D ^c,d   Harrington, Robert A ^c   Diefenbach, Jane ^e   Kisler, Bron ^f   Walker, Mead ^g   Ed Hammond, W ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d FAMILY HEALTH INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^e PharmaStat LLC   (United States)

^f Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium   (United States)

^g Patient Safety Work Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical definitions; Data elements; Domain analysis model; EMR; HL7; Interoperability; Standards

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873118558     PISSN: 17562104     EISSN: 17562112     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJFIPM.2010.040213     Document Type: Article

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