A scheme for the continuing development of Meta-1, a taxonomy of medical subjects based on MeSH and other systems, is described. The objective is a single, structured classification for medical knowledge.
HumphreysB.L.LindbergDAB. Building the Unified Medical Language System. In: MillerR.A., ed. Proc 14th Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care.”Washington, DC: IEEE Computer Society Press, 1989; 475–80.
2.
TuttleM.S.SherertzD.ErlbaumM.OlsonN.NelsonS.Implementing Meta-1: the first version of the UMLS Metathesaurus. In: MillerR.A., ed. Proc 14th Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care.Washington, DC: IEEE Computer Society Press, 1989; 483–7.
3.
UMLS knowledge sources, experimental edition. September Documentation. National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine, 1990: 84.
4.
Medical Subject Headings.US Department of Health and Human Services, National Library of Medicine, NIH Publication No. 89–265, Bethesda, MD, 1989; 1–8.
5.
BishopCW. FRAMEMED, a framework for medical knowledge. Proc AAMSI Congress 1988, San Francisco, 1988; 94–8.
6.
BishopC.W.EwingP.Creating a list of codes to express patient findings. Proc AAMSI Congress 1989, San Francisco, 1989; 98–102.
7.
“CAS Online” pamphlet from Chemical Abstracts Service, Marketing, Dept. 31085, Olentangy River Road, P.O. Box 3012, Columbus, OH 43210.
8.
Enzyme Nomenclature 1984, Recommendations of the Nomenclature Committee of the International Union of Biochemistry.Orlando, FL: Academic Press, 1984.
9.
CoteR.A., Ed. Systematized nomenclature of medicine.Skokie, IL: College of American Pathologists, 1979.
10.
BishopC.W.DombrowskiT.Coding: why and how. MD Comput.1990; 7: 210–5.
11.
ICD-9-CM, the international classification of diseases. 9th revision, clinical modification.U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC, 1980.
12.
DSM-III-R, diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders.3rd ed., revised. The American Psychiatric Association, Washington, DC, 1987; 433.
