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Research Paper: A General Natural-language Text Processor for Clinical Radiology
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Development of a general natural-language processor that identifies clinical information in narrative reports and maps that information into a structured representation containing clinical terms, using radiology as the test domain.
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Desiderata for controlled medical vocabularies in the twenty-first century.
  • J. Cimino
  • Computer Science
    Methods of information in medicine
  • 1 November 1998
TLDR
This paper brings together some of the common themes which have been described, including: vocabulary content, concept orientation, concept Orientation, concept permanence, nonsemantic concept identifiers, polyhierarchy, formal definitions, rejection of "not elsewhere classified" terms, multiple granularities, multiple consistent views, context representation, graceful evolution, and recognized redundancy.
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Research Paper: Knowledge-based Approaches to the Maintenance of a Large Controlled Medical Terminology
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The Medical Entities Dictionary is a hybrid of terminology and knowledge that provides domain coverage, synonymy, consistency of views, explicit relationships, and multiple classification while preventing redundancy, ambiguity (homonymy) and misclassification.
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Research Paper: A Randomized Trial Comparing Telemedicine Case Management with Usual Care in Older, Ethnically Diverse, Medically Underserved Patients with Diabetes Mellitus: 5 Year Results of the…
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Telemedicine case management resulted in net improvements in HgbA1c, LDL-cholesterol and blood pressure levels over 5 years in medically underserved Medicare beneficiaries, and mortality was not different between the groups, although power was limited.
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Towards the development of a conceptual distance metric for the UMLS
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Caveats for the use of operational electronic health record data in comparative effectiveness research.
TLDR
A list of caveats is developed to inform would-be users of such data as well as provide an informatics roadmap that aims to insure this opportunity to augment comparative effectiveness research can be best leveraged.
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DXplain. An evolving diagnostic decision-support system.
TLDR
A key element in the distribution of DXplain is the planned collaboration with its physician-users whose comments, criticisms, and suggestions will play an important role in modifying and enhancing the knowledge base.
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Usability testing in medical informatics: cognitive approaches to evaluation of information systems and user interfaces
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An approach to the evaluation of health care information technologies based on usability engineering and a methodological framework from the study of medical cognition is described, which aims to characterize the decision making and reasoning of subjects of varied levels of expertise as they interact with information technology in carrying out representative tasks.
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Research Paper: Auditing the Unified Medical Language System with Semantic Methods
  • J. Cimino
  • Computer Science
    J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc.
  • 1998
TLDR
Semantic techniques can be used to audit the UMLS to detect inconsistencies that are not detectable through lexical techniques alone, and use of these methods to augment the UmlS maintenance process will lead to improvement in the U MLS.
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Beyond Information Retrieval - Medical Question Answering
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The authors address physicians' information needs and described the design, implementation, and evaluation of the medical question answering system (MedQA), which aims to enable MedQA to answer all types of medical questions.
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