Unified Medical Language System® (UMLS®)
Beth Israel OMR Clinical Problem List Vocabulary Source Information
Authority
The Beth Israel On-line Medical Record (OMR) Clinical Problem
List Vocabulary was developed by the Beth Israel Deaconess
Medical Center.
Purpose
The problem list serves as a set of standard terms to
represent and capture clinical data in electronic health records
systems.
Description
The problem list contains over 850 terms, approximately 200
related terms and synonyms, and nearly 200 term
abbreviations.
Audience
Clinicians, nurses, social workers, and other health
professionals use the problem list.
Metathesaurus Update Frequency
The problem list was last updated in the Metathesaurus in
1999.
Sites Consulted
- Zelingher J, Rind DM, Caraballo E, Tuttle MS, Olson NE, Safran C. Categorization of free-text problem lists: an effective method of capturing clinical data. Proc Annu Symp Comput Appl Med Care [Internet]. 1995 [cited 2010 Feb 24]; 416-20. Cited in: PubMed; PMID: 8563314. Available from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8563314/.