A Method for Harmonization of Clinical Abbreviation and Acronym Sense Inventories

ConclusionsGiven the high coverage, harmonizing acronym sense inventories is a promising methodology to improve their comprehensiveness. Our method is automated, leverages the extensive resources already devoted to developing institution-specific inventories in the United States, and may help generalize sense inventories to institutions who lack the resources to develop them. Future work should address quality issues in source inventories and explore additional approaches to establishing synonymy.Graphical abstract
Source: Journal of Biomedical Informatics - Category: Information Technology Source Type: research