Objectives To provide typical examples of biomedical ontologies in action, emphasizing the
role played by biomedical ontologies in knowledge management, data integration and …

Background Diagnosis codes are assigned to medical records in healthcare facilities by
trained coders by reviewing all physician authored documents associated with a patient's …

Abstract The Medical Text Indexer (MTI) is a program for producing McSH® indexing
recommendations. It is the major product of NLM's Indexing Initiative and has been used in …

In the face of a growing workload and dwindling resources, the US National Library of
Medicine (NLM) created the Indexing Initiative project in the mid-1990s. This cross-library …

We present an initial analysis of the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) Gene Indexing
initiative. Gene Indexing occurs at the time of indexing for all 4600 journals and over …

Objective The study sought to describe the literature related to the development of methods
for auditing the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS), with particular attention to …

Background Facing a growing workload and dwindling resources, the US National Library of
Medicine (NLM) created the Indexing Initiative project in 1996. This cross-library team's …

The objective of NLM's Indexing Initiative (IND) is to investigate methods whereby
automated indexing methods partially or completely substitute for current indexing practices …

Objective: Clinical information systems typically present patient data in chronologic order,
organized by the source of the information (eg, laboratory, radiology). This study evaluates …

The authors have developed a Web-based system that provides summary information about
clinical trials being conducted throughout the United States. The first version of the system …