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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
Pt 2
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-9-15
pubmed:abstractText
Terminological systems such as SNOMED CT play an increasingly important role in contemporary record keeping. This drives the need of assessing the content of these systems, as well as the content of medical records captured using these systems. In this paper, the use of information content as a measure for the structure of terminological systems and the content in medical records is explored. Two complementary information-content-based measures for terminological systems are proposed: the proportion of concepts with zero information content, and the average information content. The measures are applied to the latest releases of SNOMED CT. The measures are useful as an indicator of the overall structure of terminological systems or parts thereof. Furthermore, two measures are described which can provide an estimate for the content of medical records that is captured using a terminological system. Information content is shown to provide a useful basis for assessing the structure of terminological systems and the content of medical records.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
T
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0926-9630
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
160
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1075-9
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
Information-content-based measures for the structure of terminological systems and for data recorded using these systems.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Medical Informatics, Academic Medical Center - University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. r.cornet@amc.uva.nl
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article