This chapter introduces the field of biomedical informatics, explaining that it addresses
underlying scientific issues (basic research) while also having major applied goals and an …

Although MedDRA has obvious advantages over previous terminologies for coding adverse
drug reactions and discovering potential signals using data mining techniques, its …

Monitoring adverse events (AEs) is an important part of clinical research and a crucial target
for data standards. The representation of adverse events themselves requires the use of …

Objective: To investigate the feasibility of using SNOMED CT as an entry point for coding
adverse drug reactions and map them automatically to MedDRA for reporting purposes and …

Purpose To detect signals of adverse drug events after imipenem treatment using the Korea
Institute of Drug Safety & Risk Management-Korea adverse event reporting system database …

Background: Formal definitions allow selecting terms (eg, identifying all terms related to
“Infectious disease” using the query “has causative agent organism”) and terminological …

Abstract Background The Systematic Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms (SNOMED
CT) is being advocated as the foundation for encoding clinical documentation. While the …

In health, there exist practically as many different terminologies, controlled vocabularies,
thesauri and classification systems as there are fields of application. In fact, terminologies …

A concept-based terminology that covers all features of healthcare is essential for the
development of an Electronic Health Record (EHR). Since a significant percentage of the …

MedDRA is exploited for the indexing of pharmacovigilance spontaneous reports. But since
spontaneous reports cover only a small proportion of the existing adverse drug reactions …