A Medical Data Dictionary for Decision Support Applications.
Stanley M. Huff, Romany Craig, Bryan Gould, D.L. Castagno, R.E. Smilan · PubMed Central · 1987
Building and maintaining clinically-based medical information systems is a complex task. Advances in database management technologies, including the concept of a data dictionary, have helped support this process. A medical data dictionary is described with discussions on the role of data dictionaries within a medical information system and the conceptual model supported by the AT&T CareComm (TM) data dictionary. Additionally, a high level overview of features that we deemed important to support a medical information system with integrated decision support capabilities is presented.