Numerical approach to classification of angina

Wartak, J; Fenna, Donald; Callaghan, John C.

doi:10.1016/0002-8703(84)90401-0

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“…For example, Jones [5] developed a set of criteria for diagnosing acute rheumatic fever while the authors of the TNM classification of malignant tumors [7] suggested the so-called C-( Certainty-) factor. In addition, the concept to express diagnostic categories in numerical rather than descriptive terms has been previously reported in the literature [8][9][10]. Also the idea of blue prints for diseases is not entirely original because it has been patterned on the structural modules employed by the American Medical Association to organize current medical information and terminology [2].…”

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Entity-directed Coding of Medical Nomenclature

Fenna¹,

Wartak²

1984

Methods Inf Med

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SummaryA new approach to the coding of medical nomenclature is described: According to this approach, medical terms would be coded in a free-standing fashion similarly as entries in most dictionaries. A general or master catalogue would serve as the operational basis for specialty field catalogues, each containing medical terms closely related. Thus, a symptom catalogue would contain only those terms which are used to describe patient complaints. Specific disease entities would have “blue prints” listed in a so-called “Lexicon”. The disease code would be appended by a digit indicating the accuracy of diagnosis and generated by comparing the patient’s data with the disease’s blue print. The proposed scheme could eliminate many shortcomings of presently employed coding systems.

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