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Development Of A Specialist Medical Vocabulary For Radiation Oncology, Andrew Alexis Miller, Ping Yu
Development Of A Specialist Medical Vocabulary For Radiation Oncology, Andrew Alexis Miller, Ping Yu
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Controlled medical terminologies that have been developed to describe terms utilized in the field of Radiation Oncology, include SNOMED-CT and DICOM-RT. However, a literature review has failed to provide evidence that the coverage and the level of granularity of these nomenclatures have satisfied the needs of radiation oncologists. Indeed most investigations conclude that the coverage is generally unsatisfactory. Fur-thermore, there is no evidence that an objective specification of the specialist medical terms used in Radiation Oncology has been developed. We report the development of a Specialist Medical Vocabu-lary for Radiation Oncology using an objective and systematic method of discovery of …