An evaluation of UMLS as a controlled terminology for the problem list toolkit

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 52, Issue , 1998, Pages 609-612

  Goldberg, Howard ^a   Goldsmith, Denise ^a   Law, Vincent ^a   Keck, Kevin ^b   Tuttle, Mark ^b   Safran, Charles ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Lexical Technology Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Controlled Clinical Terminology; Problem List; Unified Medical Language System

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL COMPUTING; SEMANTICS; TERMINOLOGY;

CLINICAL PRACTICES; CLINICAL TERMINOLOGY; NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINES; OPERATIONAL DEFINITION; PROBLEM LIST; SOFTWARE COMPONENT; SUPPORT OPERATIONS; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEMS;

DIAGNOSIS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EVALUATION; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL RECORD;

EVALUATION STUDIES; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MEDICAL RECORDS, PROBLEM-ORIENTED; SOFTWARE; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 84887772509     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-896-0-609     Document Type: Conference Paper

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