title: A contextual coding system for transplantation and end stage diseases.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Etablissement français des Greffes, Paris, France. christian.jacquelinet@univ-rennes1.fr
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Jacquelinet
authors.forename: Anita
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Burgun
authors.forename: Sami
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Djabbour
authors.forename: Denis
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Delamarre
authors.forename: Patrick
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Clerc
authors.forename: Bernard
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Boutin
authors.forename: Pierre
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Le Beux
mesh_terms: 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