Interpretation of an international terminology standard in the development of a logic-based compositional terminology

Hardiker, NR; Coenen, A

Abstract

Purpose: Version 1.0 of the International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP®) is a logic-based compositional terminology. International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 18104:2003 Health Informatics¿Integration of a reference terminology model for nursing is an international standard to support the development, testing and implementation of nursing terminologies. Methods: This study examines how ISO 18104:2003 has been interpreted in the development of ICNP® Version 1.0 by identifying mappings between ICNP® and the ISO standard. Representations of diagnostic and interventional statements within ICNP® are also analyzed according to the requirements mandated by the ISO standard. Results: All structural components of ISO 18104:2003 i.e. semantic categories, semantic domains, qualifiers and semantic links are represented either directly or in interpreted form within ICNP®. The formal representations within ICNP® of diagnostic and interventional statements meet the requirement of the ISO standard. Conclusions: The findings of this study demonstrate that ICNP® Version 1.0 conforms to ISO 18104:2003. More importantly perhaps, this study provides practical examples of how components of a terminology standard might be interpreted and it examines how such a standard might be used to support the definition of high-level schemata in developing logic-based compositional terminologies.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2007
• Deposit Date: Dec 2, 2010
• Publicly Available Date: Apr 5, 2016
• Journal: International Journal of Medical Informatics
• Print ISSN: 1386-5056
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Peer Reviewed: Not Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 76S2
• Pages: S274-S280
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2007.05.005
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2007.05.005