Unified Medical Language System Coverage of Emergency-medicine Chief Complaints
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ontology of unified medical language system (umls) metathesaurus
introduction: for many years, ontologies have been available in many different forms, for example: classification schema, thesauruses, authorized vocabularies, terminologies and dictionaries. terminology and knowledge resources are essential components of interoperability among disparate systems. so, this paper considered the ontology of umls (which was prepared by national library medicine of ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Academic Emergency Medicine
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1069-6563,1553-2712
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2006.06.054