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predictive and the ability to display both the relationships between various components
and the pathways from the contributing factors to the outcome. 25
33.5 Terminology Tools
A number of tools are available for research and development of terminologies and
these are summarized in Table 33.2.
Table 33.2 Terminology tools (last accessed 2 December 2008)
Tool Terminologies Comments
The UMLS ®
and
MetaMap ®
Many The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) ®
from the National Library of Medicine links
100 + medical terminologies by concept and
semantic relationships. Contains SNOMED
CT ® for free use by developers (user agreement
required)
URL: https://kscas.nlm.nih.gov:8443/cas/
login?service=http://umlsks.nlm.nih.gov/
uPortal/Login
ICD codes ICD 9, 10. International
Classification
of Functioning,
Disability, and
Health (ICF)
The International Classification of
Diseases in database format f
rom the National
Center for
Health Statistics
URL: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/icd9.htm
Relma ® LOINC ® The Regenstrief LOINC Mapping Assistant facilitates
searches through the Logical Objects,
Indicators, Names, and Codes database
URL: http://loinc.org/relma
MeSH ®
browser
SNOMED
CT ®
browsers
Medical
Entities
Dictionary
(MED)
MeSH ® The Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) ® are used
to index and retrieve journal article citations
from the MEDLINE/PubMed ® database via
the Entrez ® interface
URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/
entrez?db=mesh
SNOMED CT ® SNOMED CT ® is now owned by the International
Health Terminology Standards Development
Organisation (IHTSDO). A number of browsers
exist for accessing content
URL: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/
Snomed/snomed_browsers.html
MED The Medical Entities Dictionary (MED) is a large
concepts repository developed and used at the
New York Presbyterian Hospital in New York
URL: http://med.dmi.columbia.edu/browser.htm