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Representing oncology in datasets: Standard or custom biomedical terminology?

Informatics in Medicine Unlocked, 2019
In this article we investigate whether a custom or an established biomedical terminology is recommended for coding cancer datasets. We first give an overview of biomedical terminology focused on the domain of cancer and introduce three clinical use cases
Stefan Schulz, Philipp Daumke, Martin Romacker, Pablo López-García   +3 more
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Learning Formal Definitions for Snomed CT from Text [PDF]

, 2022
Snomed CT is a widely used medical ontology which is formally expressed in a fragment of the Description Logic EL++. The underlying logics allow for expressive querying, yet make it costly to maintain and extend the ontology.
Ma, Yue, Distel, Felix
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Review of codelists used to define hypertension in electronic health records and development of a codelist for research

Open Heart
Background and aims Hypertension is a leading risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Electronic health records (EHRs) are routinely collected throughout a person’s care, recording all aspects of health status, including current and past conditions ...
Jennifer Kathleen Quint, Christopher Denton, Fasihul Khan, Iain Stewart, Gisli Jenkins, Ali-Reza Mohammadi-Nejad, Dorothee Auer, Karen Piper Hanley, Michael Nation, Harley H Y Kwok, Jane Paxton, Elizabeth Robertson, Anna Duckworth, Chris Scotton, Aloysious Aravinthan, Hilary Longhurst, Mujdat Zeybel, Louise V Wain, Philip W Stone, Richard J Allen, Maria Kaisar, Lisa Chakrabarti, Georgie May Massen, Andrew Thorley, Anthony Harbottle, Armando Mendez Villalon, Daniel Lea, Ebrima Joof, Eleanor Cox, Elizabeth Eves, Emma Blamont, Gina Parcesepe, Gordon W. Moran, Guruprasad P. Aithal, Kate Frost, Leo Casmino, Margot Roeth, Martin Craig, Mohammad Alireza Kisomi   +38 more
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Investigations into the use of Snomed CT to enhance an OpenMRS health information system

South African Computer Journal, 2011
In this paper, we discuss the advantages of using formal medical ontologies to enhance health information systems. In particular, we consider the suitability of the medical ontology Snomed CT for enhancing a health information system developed in the ...
Ken Halland, Katarina Britz, Aurona Gerber   +2 more
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Creating a Modified Version of the Cambridge Multimorbidity Score to Predict Mortality in People Older Than 16 Years: Model Development and Validation

Journal of Medical Internet Research
BackgroundNo single multimorbidity measure is validated for use in NHS (National Health Service) England’s General Practice Extraction Service Data for Pandemic Planning and Research (GDPPR), the nationwide primary care data set ...
Debasish Kar, Kathryn S Taylor, Mark Joy, Sudhir Venkatesan, Wilhelmine Meeraus, Sylvia Taylor, Sneha N Anand, Filipa Ferreira, Gavin Jamie, Xuejuan Fan, Simon de Lusignan   +10 more
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Ontology-Based Clinical Information Extraction Using SNOMED CT [PDF]

, 2018
Extracting and encoding clinical information captured in unstructured clinical documents with standard medical terminologies is vital to enable secondary use of clinical data from practice.
Li, Jun
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Leveraging logical definitions and lexical features to detect missing IS-A relations in biomedical terminologies

Journal of Biomedical Semantics
Biomedical terminologies play a vital role in managing biomedical data. Missing IS-A relations in a biomedical terminology could be detrimental to its downstream usages.
Rashmie Abeysinghe, Fengbo Zheng, Jay Shi, Samden D. Lhatoo, Licong Cui   +4 more
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The Science and Practice of SNOMED CT Implementation [PDF]

, 2014
The overall research question of this PhD research was: “How can the clinical value of the Systematised Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT) be demonstrated in the primary health care setting to enhance patient care?” The position taken ...
Lee, Dennis
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Visualization of disease distribution with SNOMED CT and ICD-10

, 2010
Methods for presentation of disease and health problem distribution in a health care environment rely among other things on the inherent structure of the controlled terminology used for coding.
Nyström, Mikael,, Örman, Håkan,, Vikström, Anna,, Åhlfeldt, Hans,, Nilsson, Gunnar H,   +4 more
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Enrichment of SNOMED CT Ophthalmology Component to Support EHR Coding

, 2018
The US government has offered major financial incentives to encourage MDs, including ophthalmologists, to adopt Electronic Health Records (EHRs) in their practices. SNOMED CT was designated to be the EHR clinical terminology of choice.
Liu, Hao, Geller, James, Hildebrand, P. Lloyd, James Geller, Perl, Yehoshua, Hao Liu, P. Lloyd Hildebrand, Yehoshua Perl   +7 more
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