Barriers to evaluation of clinical vocabularies

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 52, Issue , 1998, Pages 680-684

  Hales, Joseph W ^a   Schoeffler, Katherine M ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Controlled Vocabularies; Evaluation; Nomenclature

Indexed keywords

TERMINOLOGY; THESAURI;

CLINICAL DATA; EVALUATION; INDEPENDENT ASSESSMENT; INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS; MULTIPLE LEVELS; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; QUANTITATIVE MEASURES;

VOCABULARY CONTROL;

ARTICLE; EVALUATION; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; QUALITY CONTROL;

EVALUATION STUDIES; HUMANS; QUALITY CONTROL; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 84887118591     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-896-0-680     Document Type: Conference Paper

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