Scalable quality assurance for large SNOMED CT hierarchies using subject-based subtaxonomies

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 507-518

  Ochs, Christopher ^a   Geller, James ^a   Perl, Yehoshua ^a   Chen, Yan ^b   Xu, Junchuan ^c   Min, Hua ^d   Case, James T ^e   Wei, Zhi ^a  

^a University Heights   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Abstraction network; Scalable quality assurance; SNOMED CT; Standards quality assurance; Subject based terminology quality assurance; Terminology quality assurance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; METHODOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; STANDARDIZATION; SUBTAXONOMY; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; SYSTEMATIZED NOMENCLATURE OF MEDICINE; TAXONOMY; BLEEDING; CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; NEOPLASM;

CLASSIFICATION; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; QUALITY CONTROL; SYSTEMATIZED NOMENCLATURE OF MEDICINE;

EID: 84940374235     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2014-003151     Document Type: Article

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