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Main Author: Squires, Steven J.
Format: Recurso educativo Open Access
Language:en
Published: 1993
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Online Access:https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ485295
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  • Access to Biomedical Information: The Unified Medical Language System. Squires, Steven J. Access to Information Biomedicine Evaluation Methods Futures (of Society) Information Retrieval Information Sources Medical Vocabulary Program Descriptions Semantics Thesauri Describes the development of a Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) by the National Library of Medicine that will retrieve and integrate information from a variety of information resources. Highlights include the metathesaurus; the UMLS semantic network; semantic locality; information sources map; evaluation of the metathesaurus; future possibilities; and projects using the UMLS. (Contains 62 references.) (LRW)