Initializing the VA medication reference terminology using UMLS metathesaurus co-occurrences

Initializing the VA medication reference terminology using UMLS metathesaurus co-occurrences

We developed and evaluated a UMLS Metathesaurus Co-occurrence mining algorithm to connect medications and diseases they may treat. Based on 16 years of co-occurrence data, we created 977 candidate drug-disease pairs for a sample of 100 ingredients (50 commonly prescribed and 50 selected at random)....

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Veröffentlicht in:Proceedings. AMIA Symposium. - 1998. - (2002) vom: 10., Seite 116-20
1. Verfasser: Carter, John S (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Brown, Steven H, Erlbaum, Mark S, Gregg, William, Elkin, Peter L, Speroff, Ted, Tuttle, Mark S
Format: Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2002
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Proceedings. AMIA Symposium
Schlagworte:Evaluation Study Journal Article Pharmaceutical Preparations