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Study of the oriental medical literature for morbid leukorrhea (대하(帶下)에 대(對)한 문헌적(文獻的) 고찰(考察))

  • Kim, Ji-Hye;Yoo, Dong-Youl
    • Journal of Haehwa Medicine
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.197-204
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    • 2005
  • The general conception of morbid leukorrhea is confused in its clinical application. Therefore, this studt was conducted to examine this conception based on terminology of morbid leukorrhea centering around historical literatures. The result of this study is summarized as follows. 1. Morbid leukorrhea had been considered as a disease of all women before Shou period, and then it was subdivided. 2. It was shown that morbid leukorrhea, spontaneous emission, whitish and turbid urine, and dysentery were treated by the same mwthod because their exposed regions and conditions were very similar. For this reason, it was confused to define terminology of morbid leukorrhea. 3. It was also shown that there existed both terminologies of morbid leukoeehea, as its conception in a board sense, even in Sikryoboncho. After that, however, only terminology of morbid leukorrhea was used. Currently, these terminologies tended to be used together. 4. In case of its conception in a board sense, morbid leukorrhea means all gynecological disease and syndrome of the lower burner which cause diseases in the belt channel 5. In case of its conceptio of a narrow sense, morbid leukorrhea implies disease in the front middle regions of channels and collacterals, which has been recntly considered as secretions of women.

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Construction of Local Data Dictionary in the Field of Nuclear Medicine

  • Hwang, Kyung-Hoon;Lee, Haejun
    • Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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    • 2010.11a
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    • pp.465-465
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    • 2010
  • A controlled medical vocabulary is a vital component of medical information management because it enables computers to use information meaningfully and different institutions to share the medical data. There are currently many standard medical vocabularies - SNOMED-CT, ICD-10, UMLS, GALEN, MED, etc, but none is universally accepted as an optimal controlled medical vocabulary for application to medical information system. Moreover, it is difficult to settle the well-designed local data dictionary consisting of controlled medical vocabularies for the individual hospital information system (HIS). One of the major reasons is the local terminology with poor contents have been used in the hospital. Thus, as a trial, the local controlled vocabulary referencing system has being constructed in a limited medical field - nuclear medicine. We selected practical nuclear medicine terms from interpretation reports and electronic medical records, and removed ambiguity and redundancy, mapping the selected terms to standard medical vocabularies. Relationship and hierarchy structure between terms have being made, referring to standard medical vocabularies. Further studies may be warranted.

A Study of the Case Analysis of Conceptual Modeling of Medical Terminologies by Ontology (온톨로지를 이용한 의학용어의 개념 모델링 사례 분석 연구)

  • Lee, Hyun-Sil
    • Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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    • v.21 no.3
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    • pp.141-160
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    • 2004
  • Recent reseach in the field of medical information systems has paid much attention to an ontology based medical terminology system to support clinical study and effective information search. This study aims to conduct research for further application or construction of ontology systems in Korea. This research reviews the theory of concept modeling and ontology. and analyses 4 cases of conceptual modeling of medical tenrminologies by ontology, The findings ot this study display these specific characteristics in medscal ontologies: (UHe standardization of terrrinology on MeSH. (2) The conceptualization of tenninology on UMLS. (l) ane. (2) are showed as untormal ontologies. (3) The theory of ontology integration in ON9, (4) The reference model of medical knowledge with formalization in GALEN. (3) and (4) are showed as formal ontologies. The application and construction of ontology should be differentiated according to the level of the proposed system, and then this analysis will provide useful information for the researcher and developer of the system.

The Adoptions and Use of Electronic Nursing Records in Korean Hospitals: Findings of a Nationwide Survey (국내 전자간호기록 개발 및 실무적용 현황 조사)

  • Cho, Insook;Choi, Won Ja;Choi, Woan Heui;Kim, Min Kyeong
    • Journal of Korean Clinical Nursing Research
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.345-356
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    • 2013
  • Purpose: To provide clear estimates of the adoption and use of electronic nursing records (ENRs) with standard terminology in Korea and identification of the scope and use as well as perceived or potential benefits of ENRs. Methods: A survey was done of 733 hospitals at three levels: tertiary advanced hospitals, general hospitals, and community hospitals. After performing a literature review a modified version of an existing survey tool was used for 2 months in 2012. The collected information related to EHR functionality and coverage of nursing documentation and nursing process, application of standard terminology, and perceived satisfaction and benefits of ENRs. Results: The response rate was 39.4% (289/733), and 202 hospitals (70.1%, 95% CI64.8~75.5%) of the respondents had ENR systems (82.5% of tertiary hospitals, 66.7% of general hospitals, and 70.1% of community hospitals). Out of these hospitals less than 10% had ENRs fully covering nursing documentation. The adoption rate of standard terminology was 55%, and hospital satisfaction with ENRs was 70%. But personalized care was identified as needing improvement in ENRs. Conclusion: The ENR adoption rate was high but there are many potential opportunities for improving ENR systems in terms of the data standardization and personalized care.

Terminology Recognition System based on Machine Learning for Scientific Document Analysis (과학 기술 문헌 분석을 위한 기계학습 기반 범용 전문용어 인식 시스템)

  • Choi, Yun-Soo;Song, Sa-Kwang;Chun, Hong-Woo;Jeong, Chang-Hoo;Choi, Sung-Pil
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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    • v.18D no.5
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    • pp.329-338
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    • 2011
  • Terminology recognition system which is a preceding research for text mining, information extraction, information retrieval, semantic web, and question-answering has been intensively studied in limited range of domains, especially in bio-medical domain. We propose a domain independent terminology recognition system based on machine learning method using dictionary, syntactic features, and Web search results, since the previous works revealed limitation on applying their approaches to general domain because their resources were domain specific. We achieved F-score 80.8 and 6.5% improvement after comparing the proposed approach with the related approach, C-value, which has been widely used and is based on local domain frequencies. In the second experiment with various combinations of unithood features, the method combined with NGD(Normalized Google Distance) showed the best performance of 81.8 on F-score. We applied three machine learning methods such as Logistic regression, C4.5, and SVMs, and got the best score from the decision tree method, C4.5.

Study on the Categorical Structure Standardization for Representation of 3D Human Body Position System

  • Choi, Byung-Kwan;Choi, Eun-A;Nam, Moon-Hee
    • Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.260-266
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    • 2020
  • This study presents the categorical structure for ther epresentation of a 3D human body position system in the WD stage after NP approval by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), analyzes the needs of electronic medical record users and establishes future implementation plans for expanding its use in Korea. Research was conducted on the needs of doctors, nurses, health and medical information managers, and radiology departments, which are the main stakeholders of electronic medical records. The overall requirements for electronic medical records were derived from the results, and the requirements for each stage of use of electronic medical records were analyzed. Based on the results of the study, the study proposes plans to expand the use of the categorical structure for the representation of the 3D human body position system, and also aims to establish a standard system for health and medical terminology in Korea and contribute to the development of health and medical information standards through international standardization.

Strategy for English Translations of Journal Reference (참고문헌 영문화 작업에 있어 영어번역의 전략)

  • Song, Ho-Sueb
    • Journal of Acupuncture Research
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    • v.28 no.3
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    • pp.121-129
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    • 2011
  • Objectives : This study was to propose how to translate journal references into english for enhancing citation index of the journals published in the Korean Oriental Medical Society. Methods : Journal reference is mainly composed of author name, title or book name, journal name such as Index Medicus or publisher name, etc. In order to find the appropriate equivalents to the above major constituents, head words extracted from all the references of Journal of Korean Oriental Medical Society published in 2002 to 2009. A plan for English translation of the journal reference was formulated and the glossary was prepared. Plan for English translation of the journal reference : 1. Author: Author name was represented as capitalized last name and two initials of first name and listed up to six. If there are more, the first three or six authors were listed with 'et al'. 2. Terminology of traditional Korean medicine: Standard korean traditional medical terminology was one of the current representative dictionary with as much as 6040 headwords, which was needed to be translated into English in order to provide substantial equivalents available for English translation of journal reference. Therefor 4361 english equivalents were to be newly adopted except for 1679 overlapped with them in WHO-IST. Source oriented translation and target oriented translation were allowed to be appropriately selected depending on the condition. In addition, principle of English translation of acupoint,medicinal Herbs, Herbal formula and classical works were proposed. 3. Basically the names of journals should be set in italics and abbreviated according to the List of journals indexed for medline (formerly Index Medicus) published by the National Library of Medicine. however, abbreviation of korean oriental medical journals were not yet established. Thus establishment of tentative korean index medicus should be considered. Conclusions : For the enhancement of journal citation index of korean traditional medical journals, it was suggested that english translation of journal reference should be one of the alternatives enhancing citation rate.

A Study on the Concept of 'Physical symptom(形證)' in Dong-uibogam - Focused on Physical symptom & Medication of Six Meridians in the Han(寒) Chapter - (『동의보감(東醫寶鑑)』의 '형증(形證)' 개념(槪念)에 대한 고찰 - ≪한(寒)≫ <육경형증용약(六經形證用藥)>을 중심으로 -)

  • Shin, Sang-Won;Jeong, Chang-Hyun;Baik, You-Sang;Jang, Woo-Chang
    • Journal of Korean Medical classics
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    • v.27 no.4
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    • pp.101-119
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    • 2014
  • Objectives : In Dong-uibogam, Heo Jun used the concept of 'Physical symptom(形證)' that had not used frequently in practical description of pathological condition. Especially, He used the terminology, 'Physical symptom(形證)' as a title in the Han(寒) Chapter that described Sanghan(傷寒). Methods : It has been done to analyse verses that include the concept of 'Physical symptom(形證)' in Dong-uibogam. And, to find the context including the terminology diachronically. Results : Diachronically, 'physical symptom' and 'pulse sign' had been considered as bilateral factors of disease, and Heo jun cognized the concept of 'Physical symptom' in these means in Dong-uibogam. Conclusions : Introducing the concept of 'Physical symptom' is an important decision of Heo Jun, it can express the purpose of an observation to objective symptoms.

Kanho Kyokwaseo (Textbook of Nursing), the First Published Korean Nursing Books (우리나라에서 최초로 출판된 간호학 서적 "간호교과셔" 연구)

  • YI, Ggodme
    • The Journal of Korean Academic Society of Nursing Education
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    • v.23 no.4
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    • pp.452-462
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    • 2017
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study is to extend the knowledge about two volumes of Kanho Kyokwaseo (Textbook of Nursing) published in 1908 and 1910. Methods: The books were investigated from the first to the last pages and compared with other textbooks published during the same period. Results: The origin of these books was from Hubinyaoshu (Manual of Nursing) published in China in 1904. They were translated by Edmunds, a missionary nurse from America, and Chang Chai-Sun, a teacher at the first nursing school in Korea, along with inspection by Korean teachers who were fluent in English. Kanho Kyokwaseo are user-friendly textbooks in that they are written mainly in Hangul; Chinese and English are added in cases of explicating western scientific terminology and medical terminology, with notes at the top, on the left, and on the right of the page. The contents emphasize reporting and submission to supervisors and doctors. Surgical nursing occupies the largest chapter. Disinfection and hygiene, the advantages of western modern medicine, are dealt with repeatedly and importantly. Conclusion: Kanho Kyokwaseo was widely used as the first and only nursing textbook published before Japanese occupation and as a publication having upgraded the level of textbooks.

Design of a SNOMED CT Browser Supporting Comparative Search of Clinical Terminology (의학용어 비교 검색을 지원하는 SNOMED CT 브라우저 설계)

  • Ryu, Wooseok
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2015.05a
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    • pp.418-420
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    • 2015
  • The SNOMED CT browser is a system for searching and browsing of a huge volume of medical terminologies included in SNOMED CT. Previous browsers provide a simple list-up of search results while they are similar from each other. It leads to a serious confusion in selecting an appropriate term among them. This paper presents a novel browser system which provides a comparative search of search results. To do this, the proposed system includes a terminology search module, a topology search module, and a sub-graph generation module for the results.

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