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A bibliography of 847 citations in health risk communication.
Zorn, Marcia and Scott Ratzan. NIH (2000). Resources>Bibliographies>Risk Communication>Biomedical
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Technical Communication: Perspectives on Planning and Evaluating Information Outreach
This paper presents perspectives from the field of technical communication on the planning and evaluation of information outreach. As described by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) project for which it is written, the intent is that the perspectives presented here will be integrated with the perspectives of many other relevant fields to help produce a general guide to the conduct of evaluations of medical information outreach. I begin with an historical overview of the field to help the reader understand the particular perspectives of technical communication. I then address the specific items requested by the NLM project: (1) input and output variables, (2) process variables and interventions, (3) evaluation methodologies, and (4) models.
Haselkorn, Mark P. NIH (1999). Articles>Management>Planning
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Unified Medical Language System
In 1986, the National Library of Medicine (NLM), began a long term research and development project to build a Unified Medical Language System ® (UMLS ® ). The purpose of the UMLS is to aid the development of systems that help health professionals and researchers retrieve and integrate electronic biomedical information from a variety of sources and to make it easy for users to link disparate information systems, including computer-based patient records, bibliographic databases, factual databases, and expert systems. The UMLS project develops 'Knowledge Sources' that can be used by a wide variety of applications programs to overcome retrieval problems caused by differences in terminology and the scattering of relevant information across many databases.
