title: Do existing controlled vocabularies contain terminology needed for patient records?
abstract: A 1996-97 study conducted by the National Library of Medicine and the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research aimed to determine how well existing vocabularies cover the concepts and terms needed in health information systems. The author describes the hypothesis underlying the study, how the process worked, its findings, and implications for future vocabulary development.
authors.affiliation: National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD, USA.
authors.forename: B L
authors.initials: BL
authors.lastname: Humphreys
mesh_terms: D000043:Abstracting and Indexing / Q000592:standards*; D006302:Health Services Research; D008499:Medical Records / Q000592:standards*; D009317:National Library of Medicine (U.S.); D017432:Unified Medical Language System; D014481:United States; D016270:United States Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled