title: SNOMED-based knowledge representation.
abstract: A standardized vocabulary and a standardized representation for this vocabulary are necessary prerequisites for the development of a computer-based patient record. A standard conceptual scheme or data structure for this vocabulary must be in place to define clinical events and to share data. SNOMED International is a detailed, fine grained, semantically typed and comprehensive computer processable vocabulary encompassing both human and veterinary medicine. Each term is placed in a standardized data structure that shows the term relationship within its own and other related taxonomic hierarchies. SNOMED International is a standardized vocabulary and data structure suitable for use in the computer-based patient record.
authors.affiliation: Department of Laboratory Medicine, Columbia Hospital, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA.
authors.forename: D J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Rothwell
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002965:Classification; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D014730:Veterinary Medicine; D014825:Vocabulary