The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS)¶

Bodenreider, O. (2004). The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS): integrating biomedical terminology. Nucleic Acids Research.

Type: Journal article
Intellectual base: Primary research
Year: 2004
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkh061
DOI registrant: Oxford University Press
Link: https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkh061

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Domain-specific¶

Schema Mapping Relation
- Library and museum knowledge-organization systems — the home turf: SKOS-graded bridges between thesauri (LCSH ↔ FAST), classification schemes (DDC ↔ UDC), and structured vocabularies (CIDOC CRM ↔ local catalogue terms), where a curator reads broadMatch off a local-to-LCSH bridge and knows inference may climb but not descend. Healthcare terminology crosswalks — ICD-9 ↔ ICD-10, ICD ↔ SNOMED-CT, LOINC ↔ local lab codes, where the closeMatch-flags-loss-risk discipline is load-bearing because clinical and reimbursement consequences ride on the bridge's declared precision
  This sourceThe UMLS Metathesaurus as a repository integrating concepts and names from more than 60 families of biomedical vocabularies.
  
  Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract
  
  “The UMLS integrates over 2 million names for some 900,000 concepts from more than 60 families of biomedical vocabularies, as well as 12 million relations among these concepts.”
  From the publisher's abstract.
  
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