title: Comparing existing national and international classification systems of surgical procedures with the CEN/ISO 1828 ontology framework standard.
abstract: Among different standardization strategies for biomedical terminologies the European Standard Body CEN TC 251 followed by ISO TC 215 have stated that it was not possible to convince the different European or international member states using different national languages to agree on a reference clinical terminology or to standardize a detailed language independent biomedical ontology. Since 1990 they have developed since an approach named the Categorial Structure that standardises only the terminologies' model structure. The methodology for the Categorial Structure development and a comparison of the different existing classification systems based on this ontology framework is presented as a step towards increased interoperability between biomedical terminologies through conformity to a minimum set of ontological requirements.
authors: University of Saint Etienne, CHU, Department of public health and medical informatics, Saint Etienne, France. rodrigues@univ-st-etienne.fr
authors: Jean M
authors: JM
authors: Rodrigues
authors: Ann
authors: A
authors: Casey
authors: Cédric
authors: C
authors: Bousquet
authors: Anand
authors: A
authors: Kumar
authors: Pierre
authors: P
authors: Lewalle
authors: Béatrice
authors: B
authors: Trombert Paviot
mesh_terms: D005060:Europe; D005568:Forms and Records Control / Q000592:standards; D013502:General Surgery / Q000145:classification / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D038622:Internationality; D007802:Language; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D012660:Semantics; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled