Hardiker N R, Rector A L
Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, England.
J Am Med Inform Assoc. 1998 Jan-Feb;5(1):120-8. doi: 10.1136/jamia.1998.0050120.
The purpose of the study is to explore the use of formal systems to model nursing terminology.
GRAIL is a formal, compositional terminologic language, closely related to frame-based systems and conceptual graphs, which allows concepts to be formed from atomic-level primitives and automatically classified in a multiple hierarchy. A formal model of the alpha version of the International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP) classification of nursing interventions was constructed in GRAIL.
The model was analyzed for completeness, coherence, clarity, expressiveness, usefulness, and maintainability.
GRAIL is capable of representing the complete set of atomic-level concepts within the ICNP as well as certain cross-mappings to other vocabularies. It also has the potential to represent many more concepts, to an arbitrary level of detail.
Formal systems such as GRAIL can overcome many of the difficulties associated with traditional nursing vocabularies without restricting the level of detail needed to describe nursing care.
本研究旨在探索使用形式系统对护理术语进行建模。
GRAIL是一种形式化的、组合式术语语言,与基于框架的系统和概念图密切相关,它允许从原子级原语形成概念,并在多重层次结构中自动分类。在GRAIL中构建了国际护理实践分类(ICNP)护理干预分类alpha版本的形式模型。
对该模型进行完整性、连贯性、清晰度、表现力、实用性和可维护性分析。
GRAIL能够表示ICNP内的完整原子级概念集以及与其他词汇表的某些交叉映射。它还具有表示更多概念的潜力,达到任意详细程度。
像GRAIL这样的形式系统可以克服与传统护理词汇相关的许多困难,而不会限制描述护理所需的详细程度。