Mining and standardizing chinese consumer health terms.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Health professionals and consumers use different terms to express medical events or concerns, which makes the communication barriers between the professionals and consumers. This may lead to bias in the diagnosis or treatment due to the misunderstanding or incomplete understanding. To solve the issue, a consumer health vocabulary was developed to map the consumer-used health terms to professional-used medical terms.

Methods

In this study, we extracted Chinese consumer health terms from both online health forum and patient education monographs, and manually mapped them to medical terms used by professionals (terms in medical thesauri or in medical books). To ensure the above annotation quality, we developed annotation guidelines.

Results

We applied our metho

SUBMITTER: Hou L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6284272 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature