Min H, Perl Y, Chen Y, Halper M, Geller J, Wang Yue. Auditing as part of the Terminology Design Life Cycle. To appear on J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2006 Nov.

Abstract: Objective: To develop and test an auditing methodology for detecting errors in medical terminologies satisfying systematic inheritance. This methodology is based on various abstraction taxonomies that provide high-level views of a terminology and highlight potentially erroneous concepts.