Abstract

The purpose of this contract is to provide research and development support for the Unified Medical Language System. Specifically, the contractor will support (1) the definition of the functional components and algorithms needed: to relate the user's terms to information in the UMLS Knowledge Sources; to interact with the user to clarify the information needed; and to select and access the information sources relevant to the user's inquiry, and (2) evaluation of the utility of the UMLS Knowledge Sources and proposed functional components in a variety of environments.

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Library of Medicine (NLM)
Type
Research and Development Contracts (N01)
Project #
N01LM013535-005
Application #
2319061
Study Section
Project Start
1991-07-30
Project End
1994-07-29
Budget Start
1993-06-23
Budget End
1993-11-29
Support Year
Fiscal Year
1993
Total Cost
Indirect Cost

  Institution

Name
University of Pittsburgh
Department
Type
Other Domestic Higher Education
DUNS #
053785812
City
Pittsburgh
State
PA
Country
United States
Zip Code
15213

  Publications

Miller, R A (1994) Medical diagnostic decision support systems--past, present, and future: a threaded bibliography and brief commentary. J Am Med Inform Assoc 1:8-27
Wagner, M M; Cooper, G F (1993) Decision-theoretic information pretrieval: a generalization of reminding. Proc Annu Symp Comput Appl Med Care :512-6
Miller, R A; Gieszczykiewicz, F M; Vries, J K et al. (1992) CHARTLINE: providing bibliographic references relevant to patient charts using the UMLS Metathesaurus Knowledge Sources. Proc Annu Symp Comput Appl Med Care :86-90