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Inter-translation of Biomedical Coding Schemes Using UMLS

October 15th, 2006

Inter-translation of Biomedical Coding Schemes Using UMLS

Jeffery L. Painter, Kristopher M. Kleiner, Gary H. Merrill

Abstract: We report the results of our work in using the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) 1 to apply biomedical ontologies to practical problems faced by epidemiologists in extracting study cohorts from large disparate observational data bases.