title: A concept model for the automatic maintenance of controlled medical vocabularies.
abstract: A controlled medical vocabulary is a fundamental requirement in a range of medical informatics applications. Large vocabularies development and maintenance is labor intensive and costly. Maintainers of medical vocabularies need appropriate tools to do their work correctly. In this paper, we describe our concept model for a controlled medical vocabulary. We present how this model can check vocabulary consistency. We propose a set of tools in a distributed environment, which permits edition, visualization and maintenance of medical terminologies.
authors.affiliation: Medical Informatics Group, School of Computer Science Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain. jrodriguez@infomed.dia.fi.upm.es
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rodriguez
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Maojo
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Crespo
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Fernandez
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D012660:Semantics; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled