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controlled vocabulary. Bouchet et al. have descfibed than main types of coding. Material and method: 392 concepts from the help systems [4]: lexical coding help ...
Using Semantic Distance for the Efficient Coding of Medical Concepts C,6dric Bousquet Marie-Christine Jaulent PhD., Gilles Chatellier, MD., Patrice Degoulet I.M., PhD. Medical Infonmfics Department Broussais Hospital, Paris, France Abstmd

Qiective: to use the notion of semantic distance to find the nearest neighbors of a medical concept in a controlled vocabulary. Material and method: 392 concepts from the cardiovascular chapter of the ICD-10 wereprojected on the axes of SNOMED III. Distances were measured on each axis and the resulting distance was found using a Lp norm. Results: the distance between a set of ischemic diseases and a set of non-ischemic diseases was significant (p

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