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Top-Level Design of a Normalized Chinese Clinical Terminology: An Integrated Application of National and International Data Standards and Terminologies
Haixia Sun, Yujing Ji, Panpan Deng, Junlian Li, Huiling Ren, Liu Shen, Ming Feng, Yi Wang
This work describes the design and building of a Chinese clinical terminology (called CCTS). The terminology is similar to an ontology, and will promote the use of Chinese clinical data, such as indexing, retrieval and exchange. The terminology is a TOPL concept framework, which integrates hierarchical structures of Chinese and interenational reference terminology standards for health. Our framework includes 14 subtrees, 2286 classes and 65 relationships.