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Methodology for the construction of a disease nomenclature and classification system for clinical use
1Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Japan.
Methods of Information in Medicine
|December 1, 1995
Abstract:
The nature and problems of the linguistic representation of clinical data are discussed, using the linguistic theory of Ferdinand de Saussure. Based on the conclusions, a methodology for the construction of a disease nomenclature and a classification system, suitable for use in clinical information systems, is developed using set theory.