A contextual coding system for transplantation and end stage diseases.
The Establissement français des Greffes (EfG) is a state agency dealing with Public Health issues related to organ, tissue and cell transplantation in France. EfG maintains a national information system (EfG-IS) for the evaluation of organ transplantation activities. The EfG-IS is moving toward a new n-tier architecture comprising a terminological server. Because this terminological server is shared by various kind of transplant teams and dialysis centers to record patients data at different time point, contextualisation of terms appeared as a functional requirement. We report in this paper various contexts for medical terms and how they have been taken into account.
Jacquelinet
Christian
C
Etablissement français des Greffes, Paris, France. christian.jacquelinet@univ-rennes1.fr
Burgun
Anita
A
Djabbour
Sami
S
Delamarre
Denis
D
Clerc
Patrick
P
Boutin
Bernard
B
Le Beux
Pierre
P
D017690:Cell Transplantation; D003199:Computer Systems; D005568:Forms and Records Control / Q000379:methods*; D005602:France; D006077:Government Agencies; D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems; D019452:Terminally Ill; D016378:Tissue Transplantation; D014180:Transplantation