Genitourinary Medicine and the Read Codes Clinical Terms Project—A Medical Language for the Future
| Autor: | Anne M Johnson, Richard N Shen, Mark FitzGerald, Barbara Band, James S Bingham, David J. Barlow, Peter Brown, R S Pattman |
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| Rok vydání: | 1994 |
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Clinical audit
Thesaurus (information retrieval) education.field_of_study medicine.medical_specialty Decision support system business.industry Unified Medical Language System Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Dermatology Data dictionary Genitourinary medicine World Wide Web Infectious Diseases Read codes Health care Medicine Pharmacology (medical) business education |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of STD & AIDS. 5:90-92 |
| ISSN: | 1758-1052 0956-4624 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/095646249400500202 |
| Popis: | Communication of information is essential to healthcare and the accessibility of such information is vital. The NHS needs to manage an enormous amount of data and computers are essential for that purpose. However, the computer must have the data (the clinical terms or medical language) in an appropriate format. Because of the absence historically of a single appropriately structured thesaurus of terms, computer users have developed their own data dictionaries and their data have become incompatible with each other-even in similar countries, in similar fields, and with similar systems. This greatly inhibits computer communication. Currently available computer systems have not yet been designed to record all aspects of clinical information, and development in this area is vital for devising care plans or protocols, decision support systems, clinical audit, research, epidemiol |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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