title: Using UMLS to map from a library to a clinical classification: Improving the functionality of a digital library.
abstract: The Metathesaurus of the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) offers the possibility of mapping between various medical vocabularies. The Primary Care Electronic Library (PCEL) contains a database of over six thousand Medical Subject Headings (MeSH terms) describing the resources of the electronic library. We were interested to know if it was possible to map from MeSH to the Systemized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT). Such a mapping would aid healthcare professionals to retrieve relevant data from our digital library as it would enable links between clinical systems and indexed material.
authors.affiliation: Primary Care Informatics, Division of Community Health Sciences, St. George's, University of London, Cranmer Terrace, London, SW17 0RE. jsrobins@sgul.ac.uk
authors.forename: Judas
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Robinson
authors.forename: Simon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: de Lusignan
authors.forename: Patty
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kostkova
authors.forename: Bruce
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Madge
mesh_terms: D016206:Databases, Bibliographic; D006801:Humans; D046609:Libraries, Digital; D016239:MEDLINE; D008491:Medical Informatics Applications; D046650:Medical Subject Headings; D009317:National Library of Medicine (U.S.); D012660:Semantics; D039061:Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine; D017432:Unified Medical Language System; D014481:United States