Jennifer D Lake, Janet Barnsley, Aisha Lofters, Zubin Austin
A Goffmanian analysis of impact of unclear professional identity and role negotiation of pharmacists in primary care: A multiple case study
Research in social & administrative pharmacy : RSAP
objective work investigate feasibility conceptual similarity metrics framework unified medical language system umls investigated approach based minimum number parent links concepts evaluated performance relative human expert estimates three sets concepts three terminologies within umls ie mesh icd9cm snomed resulting quantitative metric enables computerbased applications use decision thresholds approximate matching criteria proposed conceptual matching supports problem solving inferencing using highlevel generic concepts based readily available data typically represented lowlevel specific concepts identification semantically similar concepts conceptual matching also enables reasoning absence exact even approximate lexical matching finally conceptual matching relevant terminology development maintenance machine learning research decision support system development data mining research biomedical informatics fields