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Development and Validation of a Controlled Vocabulary: An OWL Representation of Organizational Structures of Trauma
Joseph Utecht1, Jane Ball2, Stephen M Bowman3
1Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.
Abstract:
In trauma care and trauma care research there exists an implementation gap regarding a consistent controlled vocabulary to describe organizational aspects of trauma centers and trauma systems. This paper describes the development and evaluation of a controlled vocabulary for trauma care organizations. We give a detailed description of the involvement of domain experts in the domain analysis workflow and the authoring of definitions and additional term descriptions. Finally, the paper details the evaluation methodology to assess the initial version of the controlled vocabulary. The results of the evaluation show that our development process yields terms most of which find approval from domain experts not involved in the development. In addition, our evaluation tools resulted in valuable domain expert input to optimize the controlled vocabulary.
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