A model for evaluating interface terminologies.
Objective: Evaluations of individual terminology systems should be driven in part by the intended usages of such systems. Clinical interface terminologies support interactions between healthcare providers and computer-based applications. They aid practitioners in converting clinical "free text" thou...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association Vol. 15; no. 1; pp. 65 - 77 |
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| Formato: | research Journal Article |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jan/Feb2008
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=105862035&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 105862035 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 10675027 FZ9 jtl: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association issn: 10675027 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jan/Feb2008 vid: 15 iid: 1 pid: 622 pub: Oxford University Press / USA artinfo: ui: 105862035 105862035 NLM17947616 2009770109 10.1197/jamia.m2506 NLM17947616 PMC2274877 105862035 ppf: 65 ppct: 12 formats: tig: atl: A model for evaluating interface terminologies. aug: au: Rosenbloom ST Miller RA Johnson KB Elkin PL Brown SH Rosenbloom, S Trent Miller, Randolph A Johnson, Kevin B Elkin, Peter L Brown, Steven H affil: Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA sug: subj: Evaluation Research Snomed Vocabulary, Controlled Readability Semantics User-Computer Interface ab: Objective: Evaluations of individual terminology systems should be driven in part by the intended usages of such systems. Clinical interface terminologies support interactions between healthcare providers and computer-based applications. They aid practitioners in converting clinical "free text" thoughts into the structured, formal data representations used internally by application programs. Interface terminologies also serve the important role of presenting existing stored, encoded data to end users in human-understandable and actionable formats. The authors present a model for evaluating functional utility of interface terminologies based on these intended uses.Design: Specific parameters defined in the manuscript comprise the metrics for the evaluation model.Measurements: Parameters include concept accuracy, term expressivity, degree of semantic consistency for term construction and selection, adequacy of assertional knowledge supporting concepts, degree of complexity of pre-coordinated concepts, and the "human readability" of the terminology. The fundamental metric is how well the interface terminology performs in supporting correct, complete, and efficient data encoding or review by humans.Results: Authors provide examples demonstrating performance of the proposed evaluation model in selected instances.Conclusion: A formal evaluation model will permit investigators to evaluate interface terminologies using a consistent and principled approach. Terminology developers and evaluators can apply the proposed model to identify areas for improving interface terminologies. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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