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A dictionary server for supplying context sensitive medical knowledge.

W Ruan·T Bürkle·J Dudeck
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The Giessen Data Dictionary Server (GDDS), developed at Giessen University Hospital, integrates clinical systems with on-line, context sensitive medical knowledge to help with making medical decisions. By "context" we mean the clinical information that is being presented at the moment the information need is occurring. The dictionary server makes use of a semantic network supported by a medical data dictionary to link terms from clinical applications to their proper information sources. It has been designed to analyze the network structure itself instead of knowing the layout of the semantic net in advance. This enables us to map appropriate information sources to various clinical applications, such as nursing documentation, drug prescription and cancer follow up systems. This paper describes the function of the dictionary server and shows how the knowledge stored in the semantic network is used in the dictionary service.

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W Ruan, T Bürkle, J Dudeck. 2000. A dictionary server for supplying context sensitive medical knowledge.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11079978/

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