Abstract:

The application of standard respiratory disease terms constructed by China National Committee for Terms in Sciences and Technologies was investigated in this research. The usage frequency of standard disease and symptom terms of respiratory disease is much higher than synonymous of standard terms. Overall, the standard terms could not descript practical clinical problems completely in electronic health record as of the diversity of medical concepts. Otherwise, standard terms collected by Terms of Respiratory Disease also could not cover all synonymous in electronic health record. Thus, the continuous development is necessary to expand the coverage of respiratory disease terms in real world applications.

Key words: standard medical terms, electronic health record, coverage of medical terms, terminology standardization, terms mining