Evaluation of the Unified Medical Language System as a Medical Knowledge Source
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Case Report: Evaluation of the Unified Medical Language System as a Medical Knowledge Source
OBJECTIVE The authors evaluated the use of the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) as a medical knowledge source for the representation of medical procedures in the MAOUSSC system. DESIGN MAOUSSC, a multiaxial coding system, was used for the representation of 1500 procedures from 15 clinical specialties, using UMLS concepts (augmented by full sources for three new vocabularies being added ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
سال: 1998
ISSN: 1067-5027,1527-974X
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1998.0050076