The Australian Medicines Handbook and its controlling vocabularies.
The Australian Medicines Handbook is intended to serve as an independent peer-reviewed knowledge resource for health care providers. A printed handbook is planned first, followed by electronic products. Information about medication will be dissected and entered into a detailed database, whose elemental nature should make it "computer understandable." The terms used in the database will be cross-referenced to preferred terms. Thus, the vocabulary will be controlled. The handbook will be printed directly from the database with use of database publishing techniques.
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Department of General Practice, University of Adelaide, South Australia.
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D001315:Australia; D004346:Drug Information Services; D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems; D008492:Medical Informatics Computing; D010380:Peer Review; D012984:Software; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled