A more principled way of defining complex occurrents will help improve the quality of the terminology itself in terms of reducing errors and assuring its internal consistency.
There are, however, important improvements that need to be made to the guidelines, particularly in the use of health status and quality of life terminology.
If the quality of the terminology generated reaches high and solid results, we will contact the SNOMED CT providers to offer them the result of our work, which at the moment is in the field of academic research.
Overall, domain experts working on terminologies should be given more assistance as regards terminological and linguistic knowledge and methodology to assure linguistic and terminological next to technical quality of their terminologies.
The notion of abstraction network is presented as a means of facilitating the usability, comprehensibility, visualization, and quality assurance of terminologies.
In our study, we identified some challenges to mapping the nursing classification system in the patient record on the NMDS-AT data: the availability of actual information to assess the quality and completeness of terminology linkage; the difficulty of correctly using classifications systems; and the need to address differences in granularity between both terminologies.
In complex systems, sufficient accumulation of quantity can be translated into changes that we perceive as qualitative–"the transformation of quantity to quality," in the terminology of several classical philosophical theories, including those of Hegel and Marx.
Careful inspection of thesauri and search engines revealed a complexity and inconsistency of terminology surrounding clinical placement quality that was both unexpected and confusing.
In the earlier study [ 2] we had an indication that parts of the medical terminology systems worsen instead of improve the quality of the resources generated from the terminology systems.
The goal of this paper is to extend the original OPQ method with advanced research methods that have become popular in related research and the component model to be able to generalize individual attributes into a terminology of Quality of Experience.
