Some feedback from the medical world.........(UMLS=MeSH + ICD9..plus
everything else in medicine...)
....gary malet, Medical Core Metadata Project
>I have found that some ICD-9 codes from the '89 version of
>ICD-9 use the semicolon ; within some strings.
>So, there are 168 strings in UMLS that use the semi-colon.
>It would probably not be a huge problem since they could
>be substituted with something else, but it is still a problem.
>
>Perhaps an alternative would be to use a "|" symbol ?
>It is used as delimitor in UMLS files and usually does not
>appear otherwise.
>
>Humbert Suarez
>>No, don't use a comma; it's often used in
>>Library of Congress Subject Headings and
>>I would suspect in other subject-headings
>>schemes. Semi-colon is ok as far as I know;
>>it's what Universityof California/Riverside's
>>Library used for its InfoMine inputting of
>>keywords, and seems to work well.
>>
>>Mary Larsgaard
>>UC Santa Barbara
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