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R A Côté

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PubMed2003

VUMeF: extending the French involvement in the UMLS Metathesaurus.

A considerable number of robust vocabularies and thesauri have been developed for the healthcare and biomedical domain. No single vocabulary, however; provides complete coverage of the information needs from a public health perspective. The results of an investigation of vocabulary sources for the development of a comprehensive controlled vocabulary for the public health domain at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is presented.

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PubMed1998

The SNOMED model: a knowledge source for the controlled terminology of the computerized patient record.

This article will present a description of the semi-implicit semantic properties of the Systematized Nomenclature of Human and Veterinary Medicine, also called SNOMED International. It will focus on the formalism of SNOMED and its computational properties using the disease definition as an example. Additional information will be provided in order to convert semi-implicit links found between SNOMED concepts into explicit computational semantic links.

Artificial Intelligence↗
PubMed1997

SNOMED RT: a reference terminology for health care.

We describe the framework for SNOMED RT (Reference Terminology), designed to complement the broad coverage of medical concepts in SNOMED with a set of enhanced features that significantly increases its value as a reference terminology for representing clinical data. We describe what is meant by a reference terminology, and differentiate SNOMED RT from specialized terminologies that enable user interfaces, electronic messaging, or natural language processing, as well as from other specialized reference terminologies whose primary purpose is for representing data that is not primarily clinical in nature. We then describe how SNOMED RT represents multiple hierarchies and incorporates description logic. We believe that such a comprehensive set of concepts at multiple levels of granularity, with multiple logic-based subsumption hierarchies can meet the requirements of a reference terminology for health care.

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PubMed1996

Managing information with SNOMED: understanding the model.

SNOMED is an inventory of medical terms and concepts. Each concept has a unique representation, it's primary termcode. The primary termcode carries hierarchical and inheritable information about each concept it represents. Additional hierarchical and inheritable information is carried by cross references linked to each concept. The cross references provide the defining characteristics for each concept thereby creating a computer readable definition for each SNOMED entry. These are some of the attributes that define the SNOMED model.

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The classification-nomenclature issues in medicine: a return to natural language.

The subject is examined in accordance with recommendations made at two recent international conferences. The historical backgrounds of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) and the Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine (SNOMED) are related to explain the current status and objectives of both as well as their structural differences. A Canadian alternative to the ICD is presented along with the reason for its non-acceptance. Finally, it is proposed that SNOMED and ICD be integrated in a practical way to obtain the benefits of a multiaxial nomenclature while retaining the equivalent ICD classes necessary for maintaining the continuity of statistical information. This approach would prepare the groundwork necessary for completely automated encoding in natural medical language for health care data banks, while providing ICD-based national and international statistics.

Artificial Intelligence↗