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Abstract
Vanderbilt University Medical Center uses the UMLS as a dictionary, an interlingua, and a knowledge source within the WizOrder system. WizOrder provides direct care-provider order entry and integrated clinical decision-support capabilities. Linking the two functions enables efficient decision-support during the "normal" workflow of care providers, at the point where decisions are made. WizOrder uses the UMLS as a dictionary to encode free-text entries into controlled vocabularies such as ICD9. As an interlingua, the UMLS provides mapping between vocabularies, allowing to translate patient-specific information to MeSH terms and perform automated literature retrieval. WizOrder uses the tables of co-occurring concepts and the Semantic Network to provide sensible lists of potential drug interactions and adverse drug reactions, and generate fully-formed MEDLINE queries for PubMed.Entities:
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Year: 1998 PMID: 9929234 PMCID: PMC2232318
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Proc AMIA Symp ISSN: 1531-605X