Overlapping Complex Concepts Have More Commission Errors, Especially in Intensive Terminology Auditing

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2018

Abstract

SNOMED CT is a large, complex and widely-used terminology. Auditing is part of the life cycle of terminologies. A review of terminologies' content can identify two error categories: commission errors, such as an incorrect parent or attribute relationship, indicating errors in a concept's modeling, and omission errors, such as missing a parent or attribute relationship, representing incomplete modeling of a concept. According to our experience, terminology curators are mostly interested in commission errors. In recent years, a long-term remodeling project has addressed modeling issues in SNOMED CT's Infectious disease and Congenital disease subhierarchies. In this longitudinal study, we investigated a posteriori the efficacy of complex concepts, called overlapping concepts, to identify commission errors during intensive auditing periods and during maintenance periods over several releases. The algorithmic implication is that when auditing resources are scarce, a methodology of auditing first, or only, the overlapping concepts will obtain a higher auditing yield.

Identifier

85062378270 (Scopus)

Publication Title

AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings AMIA Symposium

e-ISSN

1942597X

PubMed ID

30815158

First Page

1157

Last Page

1166

Volume

2018

Grant

R01CA190779

Fund Ref

National Cancer Institute

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