Identifying Emergency Department Symptom-Based Diagnoses with the Unified Medical Language System [PDF]
Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2019 Introduction: Many patients who are discharged from the emergency department (ED) with a symptom-based discharge diagnosis (SBD) have post-discharge challenges related to lack of a definitive discharge diagnosis and follow-up plan.
Benjamin H. Slovis +5 more
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The Unified Medical Language System at 30 Years and How It Is Used and Published: Systematic Review and Content Analysis [PDF]
JMIR Medical Informatics, 2021 BackgroundThe Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) has been a critical tool in biomedical and health informatics, and the year 2021 marks its 30th anniversary.
Xia Jing
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Something new and different: The Unified Medical Language System. [PDF]
Inf Serv Use, 2022 Donald A.B. Lindberg M.D. arrived at the U.S. National Library of Medicine in 1984 and quickly launched the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) research and development project to help computer understand biomedical meaning and to enable retrieval and integration of information from disparate electronic sources, e.g., patient records, biomedical ...
Humphreys BL, Tuttle MS.
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Mapping Chinese Medical Entities to the Unified Medical Language System
Health Data Science, 2023 Background. Chinese medical entities have not been organized comprehensively due to the lack of well-developed terminology systems, which poses a challenge to processing Chinese medical texts for fine-grained medical knowledge representation.
Luming Chen +4 more
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ODMSummary: A Tool for Automatic Structured Comparison of Multiple Medical Forms Based on Semantic Annotation with the Unified Medical Language System. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Medical documentation is applied in various settings including patient care and clinical research. Since procedures of medical documentation are heterogeneous and developed further, secondary use of medical data is complicated.
Michael Storck +2 more
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Next Generation Phenotyping Using the Unified Medical Language System
JMIR Medical Informatics, 2014 BackgroundStructured information within patient medical records represents a largely untapped treasure trove of research data. In the United States, privacy issues notwithstanding, this has recently become more accessible thanks to the increasing ...
Adamusiak, Tomasz +2 more
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A chemical specialty semantic network for the Unified Medical Language System [PDF]
Journal of Cheminformatics, 2012 Background Terms representing chemical concepts found the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) are used to derive an expanded semantic network with mutually exclusive semantic types.
Morrey C +4 more
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Cross-lingual Unified Medical Language System entity linking in online health communities. [PDF]
J Am Med Inform Assoc, 2020 Abstract Objective In Hebrew online health communities, participants commonly write medical terms that appear as transliterated forms of a source term in English. Such transliterations introduce high variability in text and challenge text-analytics methods.
Bitton Y +5 more
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Performance evaluation of unified medical language system®'s synonyms expansion to query PubMed [PDF]
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2012 Background PubMed is the main access to medical literature on the Internet. In order to enhance the performance of its information retrieval tools, primarily non-indexed citations, the authors propose a method: expanding users' queries using Unified ...
Griffon Nicolas +6 more
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A tool for sharing annotated research data: the "Category 0" UMLS (Unified Medical Language System) vocabularies [PDF]
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2003 Background Large biomedical data sets have become increasingly important resources for medical researchers. Modern biomedical data sets are annotated with standard terms to describe the data and to support data linking between databases.
Berman Jules J
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