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Interfacing PROLOG and SQL for Medical Knowledge Engineering Development

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Medical Informatics Europe ’90

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics ((LNMED,volume 40))

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Management of complex medical knowledge requires considerable efforts, but offers perspectives of great promise for health information systems. This paper presents an interface between Prolog and the database query language SQL, which is a tool for the handling of very large medical knowledge bases. The Prolog-SQL Interface is characterized by a logic, Prolog-oriented query language and by a semantic query optimizer based on integrity constraints. It integrates the most important SQL commands for the management of and access to data and provides a comfortable user environment with error handling and help facilities.

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  1. Institut fur Med. Biometrie und Med. Informatik, Heidelberg University, D-6900, Heidelberg, Germany

    U. Haag

  2. Centre d’Informatique Hospitaliere, University State Hospital of Geneva, CH-1211, Geneve, Switzerland

    R. Baud & J.-R. Scherrer

  3. Abt. Med. und Biologische Informatik, German Cancer Research Center, D-6900, Heidelberg, Germany

    C. O. Kohler

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  1. The Federated Dublin Voluntary Hospitals, St. James’ Hospital, P.O. Box 795, Dublin 8, Ireland

    Rory O’Moore

  2. Department of Clinical Bacteriology, P.O. Box 552, 751 22, Uppsala, Sweden

    Stellan Bengtsson

  3. Caer Gwent, St. Paul’s Hospital, St. Paul’s Hill, Winchester, England

    John R. Bryant

  4. Department of Public Health Medicine, Greater Glasgow Health Board, McLeod Street, Glasgow, G4 ORA, Scotland

    John S. Bryden

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Haag, U., Baud, R., Scherrer, JR., Kohler, C.O. (1990). Interfacing PROLOG and SQL for Medical Knowledge Engineering Development. In: O’Moore, R., Bengtsson, S., Bryant, J.R., Bryden, J.S. (eds) Medical Informatics Europe ’90. Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics, vol 40. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-51659-7_48

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