Representing the UMLS as an Object-oriented Database: Modeling Issues and Advantages
Open Access
- 1 January 2000
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
- Vol. 7 (1) , 66-80
- https://doi.org/10.1136/jamia.2000.0070066
Abstract
Objective: The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) combines many well-established authoritative medical informatics terminologies in one knowledgeKeywords
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