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Nursing Informatics and the Foundation of Knowledge, 2nd Edition
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Nursing Informatics and the Foundation of Knowledge, 2nd Edition

by Dee McGonigle, Kathleen Mastrian
August 2011
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
664 pages
31h 24m
English
Jones & Bartlett Learning
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116 | CHAPTER 7 Developing Standardized Terminologies to Support Nursing Practice
Because it is underpinned by description logic, OWL permits the use of auto-
mated reasoners that can check consistency, identify equivalence, and support
classification within the ICNP ontology. The result is a rigorously and predictably
defined multiple hierarchy. The compositional nature of the ICNP ontology
makes it well suited to support the development of local terminologies; the rich
hierarchy (and the opportunity for automated reasoning) makes it well suited to
support cross-mapping between terminologies. However, ICNP is computer-
based; it may be more powerful ...
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