Altmann U, Wächter W, Tafazzoli A G, Katz F R, Schweiger R, Dudeck J
Institute of Medical Informatics, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 1999;68:895-8.
In oncology various international and national standards exist for different aspects of a disease. These standards, maintained by different organisations, have multiple relationships with each other. A common data dictionary like UMLS would facilitate the reorganisation of such relationships when a new version of a standard is published. While the modelling of relationships usually is restricted to types having a relevant frequency, there are often relationships which are expressed in texts like definitions or explanations. Such texts are a very important supplement for the acceptance and the safe use of coding systems, but often are neglected when implementing coding systems in computerised systems, because they are costly to implement. This paper discusses potentials when integrating various sources in a common, database based dictionary enhanced by XML (Extensible Markup Language) techniques.
在肿瘤学领域，针对疾病的不同方面存在各种国际和国家标准。这些由不同组织维护的标准彼此之间存在多种关系。像统一医学语言系统（UMLS）这样的通用数据字典，在发布标准的新版本时，将有助于重新组织此类关系。虽然关系建模通常限于具有相关频率的类型，但在定义或解释等文本中常常存在一些关系。此类文本对于编码系统的接受和安全使用是非常重要的补充，但在计算机系统中实施编码系统时常常被忽视，因为实施成本高昂。本文讨论了在基于XML（可扩展标记语言）技术增强的通用数据库字典中整合各种来源时的潜力。
