Achieving 'source transparency' in the UMLS® Metathesaurus®

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 107, Issue , 2004, Pages 371-375

  Hole, William T ^a   Carlsen, Brian A ^b   Tuttle, Mark S ^b   Srinivasan, Suresh ^c   Lipow, Stephanie S ^b   Olson, Nels E ^b   Sherertz, David D ^b   Humphreys, Betsy L ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b APELON INC   (United States)

^c MSD Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Controlled Vocabulary; Information Systems; Medical Informatics; Metathesaurus; Unified Medical Language System

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS; THESAURI; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

APPLICATION DEVELOPERS; BIOMEDICAL VOCABULARIES; ECONOMIES OF SCALE; MAINTENANCE PROCESS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; METATHESAURUS; UMLS METATHESAURUS; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEMS; 'CURRENT; CONCEPT-BASED; ECONOMY OF SCALE; INTEROPERATIONS;

MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED VOCABULARY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; REIMBURSEMENT; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM;

EID: 84887053204     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-949-3-371     Document Type: Article

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