Guideline and quality indicators for development, purchase and use of controlled health vocabularies

Peter L. Elkin; Steven H. Brown; John Carter; Brent A. Bauer; Dietlind Wahner-Roedler; Larry Bergstrom; Mark Pittelkow; Cornelius Rosse

doi:10.1016/S1386-5056(02)00075-8

Guideline and quality indicators for development, purchase and use of controlled health vocabularies

Peter L. Elkin, Steven H. Brown, John Carter, Brent A. Bauer, Dietlind Wahner-Roedler, Larry Bergstrom, Mark Pittelkow, Cornelius Rosse

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Abstract

Developers and purchasers of controlled health terminologies require valid mechanisms for comparing terminological systems. By Controlled Health Vocabularies, we refer to terminologies and terminological systems designed to represent clinical data at a granularity consistent with the practice of today's healthcare delivery. Comprehensive criterion for the evaluation of such systems historically have been lacking and the known criteria are inconsistently applied. Although there are many papers which describe specific desirable features of a controlled health vocabulary, to date there is not a consistent guide for evaluators of terminologies to reference, which will help them compare implementations of terminological systems on an equal footing [Methods Inf. Med. 37 (1998) 394, J. Am. Med. Inform. Assoc. 5 (1998) 503]. This guideline serves to fill the gap between academic enumeration of desirable terminological characteristics and the practical implementation or rigorous evaluations which will yield comparable data regarding the quality of one or more controlled health vocabularies.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	175-186
Number of pages	12
Journal	International Journal of Medical Informatics
Volume	68
Issue number	1-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S1386-5056(02)00075-8
State	Published - Dec 18 2002

Keywords

Controlled health vocabularies
Data representation
Knowledge management
Quality assurance
Standardization

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Health Informatics

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