Title
Design and evaluation of a semantic approach for the homogeneous identification of events in eight patient databases: a contribution to the European EU-ADR project.
Abstract
The overall objective of the EU-ADR project is the design, development, and validation of a computerised system that exploits data from electronic health records and biomedical databases for the early detection of adverse drug reactions. Eight different databases, containing health records of more than 30 million European citizens, are involved in the project. Unique queries cannot be performed across different databases because of their heterogeneity: Medical record and Claims databases, four different terminologies for coding diagnoses, and two languages for the information described in free text. The aim of our study was to provide database owners with a common basis for the construction of their queries. Using the UMLS, we provided a list of medical concepts, with their corresponding terms and codes in the four terminologies, which should be considered to retrieve the relevant information for the events of interest from the databases.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.3233/978-1-60750-588-4-1085
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Drug toxicity,Semantics,Medical records,Indexing,Information storage and retrieval,UMLS
Data mining,Information retrieval,Homogeneous,Computer science,Search engine indexing,Coding (social sciences),Exploit,Medical record,Unified Medical Language System,Database,Semantics,Medical diagnosis
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
160
Pt 2
0926-9630
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.58
0
Authors
20