Standardized Terminology for Clinical Trial Protocols Based on Ontological Top-Level Categories
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This paper describes a new method for the ontologically based standardization of concepts with regard to the quality assurance of clinical trial protocols. We developed a data dictionary for medical and trial-specific terms in which concepts and relations are defined context-dependently. The data dictionary is provided to different medical research networks by means of the software tool Onto-Builder via the internet. The data dictionary is based on domain-specific ontologies and the toplevel ontology of GOL. The concepts and relations described in the data dictionary are represented in natural language, semi formally or formally according to their use.
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تاریخ انتشار 2004