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Clinical Terminology
Heather Grain
70 - 83
10.3233/978-1-60750-476-4-70
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Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Volume 151: Health Informatics
Abstract

This chapter gives an educational overview of:

• What a clinical terminology is

• How clinical terminology is constructed and used

• The concept of mapping terminologies

• Why clinical terminology is an essential component of electronic health records and clinical decision support systems

• The issues that relate to good use of terminologies and the need for governance and standardisation to support health information quality and the linkage to safe/consistent clinical decision support

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