CHARTLINE: providing bibliographic references relevant to patient charts using the UMLS Metathesaurus Knowledge Sources.

@article{citeulike:1537956, abstract = {A successful medical informatics program helps its users to match their information needs as closely and efficiently as possible to the capabilities of the system. CHARTLINE is a computer program whose input is a free text, "natural language" patient chart in ASCII format. Using the UMLS Metathesaurus Knowledge Sources, CHARTLINE can suggest bibliographic references relevant to the patient case described in the chart. The program does not attempt to "understand" the natural language content of the chart. CHARTLINE only recognizes UMLS Metathesaurus Main Concept terms (or their synonyms) as they occur in the medical text, since those terms represent the tokens used to index the literature. The program depends on user feedback to determine which topics of a large number of potentially relevant subjects are of interest to the user.}, address = {University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pa.}, author = {Miller, R. A. and Gieszczykiewicz, F. M. and Vries, J. K. and Cooper, G. F. }, citeulike-article-id = {1537956}, issn = {0195-4210}, journal = {Proc Annu Symp Comput Appl Med Care}, keywords = {nlm, umls}, pages = {86--90}, posted-at = {2007-08-06 13:04:42}, priority = {2}, title = {CHARTLINE: providing bibliographic references relevant to patient charts using the UMLS Metathesaurus Knowledge Sources.}, url = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1483014}, year = {1992} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1537956 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1537956 N2 - A successful medical informatics program helps its users to match their information needs as closely and efficiently as possible to the capabilities of the system. CHARTLINE is a computer program whose input is a free text, "natural language" patient chart in ASCII format. Using the UMLS Metathesaurus Knowledge Sources, CHARTLINE can suggest bibliographic references relevant to the patient case described in the chart. The program does not attempt to "understand" the natural language content of the chart. CHARTLINE only recognizes UMLS Metathesaurus Main Concept terms (or their synonyms) as they occur in the medical text, since those terms represent the tokens used to index the literature. The program depends on user feedback to determine which topics of a large number of potentially relevant subjects are of interest to the user. JF - Proc Annu Symp Comput Appl Med Care SN - 0195-4210 AD - University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pa. EP - 90 TI - CHARTLINE: providing bibliographic references relevant to patient charts using the UMLS Metathesaurus Knowledge Sources. SP - 86 KW - nlm KW - umls AU - Miller, RA AU - Gieszczykiewicz, FM AU - Vries, JK AU - Cooper, GF PY - 1992/// UR - http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1483014 ER -