Rada R, Blum B, Calhoun E, Mili H, Orthner H, Singer S
Comput Biomed Res. 1987 Jun;20(3):244-63. doi: 10.1016/0010-4809(87)90057-7.
The terminology in medical informatics is evolving rapidly. The organizers of MEDINFO and SCAMC have used different sets of keywords to index their documents. Recognizing the limitations of this approach, members of those organizations joined with the National Library of Medicine in the creation of a better terminology for medical informatics. A hierarchical structure was placed on the terms to produce a thesaurus typical of the sort often used in the indexing and retrieving of documents. The building of this thesaurus began with an automatic merging of the thesaurus used by the Association of Computing Machinery and the Information Sciences component of the "Medical Subject Headings." This product was pruned by eliminating terms not related to those in the MEDINFO keyword list or not in the medical informatics literature. Further refinement of the thesaurus resulted from extensive discussions among the authors of this paper. The first major application of this terminology has been to the indexing of the articles in "MEDINFO-86 Proceedings." Major components of this medical informatics thesaurus also have been incorporated into the "Medical Subject Headings." This paper describes the process of preparing the thesaurus and presents an evaluation of its coverage of the "MEDINFO-86 Proceedings."
医学信息学中的术语正在迅速发展。MEDINFO和SCAMC的组织者使用了不同的关键词集来为其文档编制索引。认识到这种方法的局限性，这些组织的成员与美国国立医学图书馆合作，创建了一个更好的医学信息学术语。术语被赋予了层次结构，以生成一种常用于文档索引和检索的典型叙词表。这个叙词表的构建始于自动合并美国计算机协会使用的叙词表和“医学主题词表”中的信息科学部分。通过消除与MEDINFO关键词列表中的术语无关或不在医学信息学文献中的术语，对该产品进行了删减。本文作者之间的广泛讨论进一步完善了叙词表。这个术语的第一个主要应用是对“MEDINFO - 86会议论文集”中的文章进行索引。这个医学信息学叙词表的主要组成部分也已被纳入“医学主题词表”。本文描述了编制叙词表的过程，并对其对“MEDINFO - 86会议论文集”的覆盖范围进行了评估。
