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The content coverage and organizational structure of terminologies: the example of postoperative pain.

Year: 2000

Type: article

Abstract: Concepts such as symptoms present specific representational challenges in the EMR. This is because concepts without clear boundaries and external referents such as physical objects can only be examined against other terminology-based concept representation systems. The truth and falsity of such concept representation is therefore relative to the terminology-based systems. Using the concept of acute postoperative pain as an example, we examined three terminology based approaches to representing the concept. Widely varying coverage across existing clinical terminologies was evident, although the common clinical approach to reporting attributes of symptoms provided a useful organizational structure and should be examined in relation to developing terminology and information models.

Source: PubMed Central

Authors: M R Harris, J R Graves, L M Herrick, P L Elkin, C G Chute

Institution: University of Minnesota

Language: English

Topic: Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies

Subfield: Health Informatics

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funder: U.S. National Library of Medicine

Award: Research Training in Medical Informatics