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Development of an Adolescent Depression Ontology for Analyzing Social Data.

Studies in health technology and informatics
Depression in adolescence is associated with significant suicidality. Therefore, it is important to detect the risk for depression and provide timely care to adolescents. This study aims to develop an ontology for collecting and analyzing social medi...

Developing a Standards-Based Information Model for Representing Computable Diagnostic Criteria: A Feasibility Study of the NQF Quality Data Model.

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The lack of a standards-based information model has been recognized as a major barrier for representing computable diagnostic criteria. In this paper we describe our efforts in examining the feasibility of the Quality Data Model (QDM)-developed by th...

Utility of Arden Syntax for Representation of Fuzzy Logic in Clinical Quality Measures.

Studies in health technology and informatics
BACKGROUND: Prior work has established that fuzzy logic is prevalent in clinical practice guidelines and that Arden Syntax is suitable for representing clinical quality measures (CQMs). Approved since then, Arden Syntax v2.9 (2012) has formal constru...

Development of an Ontology to Recommend Exercises from Conceptual Maps.

Studies in health technology and informatics
The recommendation of exercise plans requires several variables to be considered (e.g., patient's conditions and preferences) and are normally complex to analyze. To facilitate this analysis we proposed the creation of an ontology to assist professio...

Constructing a Graph Database for Semantic Literature-Based Discovery.

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Literature-based discovery (LBD) generates discoveries, or hypotheses, by combining what is already known in the literature. Potential discoveries have the form of relations between biomedical concepts; for example, a drug may be determined to treat ...

Textual Definitions in the Leukemia Domain: Methodological Guidelines for Biomedical Ontologies.

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The goal of our study is to establish methodological guidelines for the formulation of definitions in biomedical ontologies thatare not so common in the field of Library & Information Science.

ICHI Categorial Structure: a WHO-FIC Tool for Semantic Interoperability of Procedures Classifications.

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Casemix grouping using procedures classifications has become an important use case for health care terminologies. There are so many different national procedures classifications used for Casemix grouping that it is not possible to agree on a worldwid...

Consumer Health Vocabulary: A Proposal for a Brazilian Portuguese Language.

Studies in health technology and informatics
Studies show a gap between the expressions commonly used by health consumers and health professionals. To bridge this gap, consumer health vocabularies are presented as a solution. The aim of this paper is to describe an on-going project to create a ...

A Novel Approach to Create a Machine Readable Concept Model for Validating SNOMED CT Concept Post-coordination.

Studies in health technology and informatics
Post-coordination provides the means to achieve an appropriate content coverage, which is critical in successfully adopting clinical reference terminologies, and thus represent clinical information consistently. However, one of the major problems of ...

A Statistical Analysis of Term Occurrences in Radiology Reporting.

Studies in health technology and informatics
To compare term occurrences in free-text radiology reports and RSNA reporting templates, we selected five templates from an RSNA reporting template library and their corresponding free-text reports as a test set, and employed the Wilcoxon signed-rank...