The Unified Medical Language System at 30 Years and How It Is Used and Published: Systematic Review and Content Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) has been a critical tool in biomedical and health informatics, and the year 2021 marks its 30th anniversary. The UMLS brings together many broadly used vocabularies and standards in the biomedical field to facilitate interoperability among different computer systems and applications.

Objective

Despite its longevity, there is no comprehensive publication analysis of the use of the UMLS. Thus, this review and analysis is conducted to provide an overview of the UMLS and its use in English-language peer-reviewed publications, with the objective of providing a comprehensive understanding of how the UMLS has been used in English-language peer-reviewed publications over the last 30 years.

Methods

PubMed, ACM Digital Libra

SUBMITTER: Jing X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8433943 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature