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Grouping UMLS Vocabularies By Category as of Jan. 2005

 

Note:
HIPAA denotes a National Standard designated by HIPAA regulation
CHI denotes CHI standards for use in U.S. Federal Government systems for the electronic exchange of clinical health information

 

Classifying (generalizing) clinical data for billing/statistical reporting

Diagnoses and procedures
ICD9CM_2005
HIPAA
CHI
International Classification of Diseases: 9th Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM_2005)


Diagnoses only
DSM4_1994 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV)
ICD10 etc International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems: 10th Revision (ICD-10_1998, ICD10AE_1998, ICD10AM_2000, ICD10AMAE)


Procedures only
ALT2004 Alternative Billing Concepts (AltLink)
CDT5
HIPAA
CHI
Current Dental Terminology (CDT) contained in HCPCS
CPT2005
HIPAA
CHI
Physicians' Current Procedural Terminology (CPT). 4th ed.
HCDT5
HIPAA
CHI
HCPCS Version of Current Dental Terminology
HCPCS05
HIPAA
CHI
Healthcare Financing Administration Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS)
HCPT05
HIPAA
CHI
HCPCS Version of Current Procedural Terminology (CPT)


Nursing (currently used primarily for clinical documentation and research)
HHC2003 Home Health Care Classification of Nursing Diagnoses and Interventions
NAN2004 NANDA Nursing Diagnoses: definitions and classification
NIC99 Nursing Interventions Classification
NOC97 Nursing Outcomes Classification
OMS94 The Omaha System: Applications for Community Health Nursing


Representing clinically specific data

“Comprehensive” clinical vocabularies
RCD99 etc National Health Service Clinical Terms Version 3 (Read Codes)
SNOMEDCT_2004_07_31
CHI
Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine - Clinical Terms (plus two older editions of SNOMED, SNM2(1979) and SNMI98(1998))


Observations and tests
LNC213
CHI
Logical Observation Identifiers, Names and Codes (LOINC)
ULT93 Ultrasound Structure Attribute Reporting (UltraSTAR)


Procedures
PPAC98 Pharmacy Practice Activity Classification


Diagnoses/Clinical problems/signs and symptoms
BI98 Beth Israel OMR Clinical Problem List Vocabulary
CCPSS99 Canonical Clinical Problem Statement System
CCS2003 Clinical Classifications Software (CCS)
COSTAR_89-95 Computer-Stored Ambulatory Records (COSTAR)
CPM2003 Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center Medical Entities Dictionary
CST95 Coding Symbols for Thesaurus of Adverse Reaction Terms (COSTART)
DSM4_1994 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV)
ICPC etc. The International Classification of Primary Care
MDR71 Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities Terminology (MedDRA)
WHO97 etc. WHO Adverse Drug Reaction Terminology (WHOART)


Drugs (note: MSH2002 is also a comprehensive source of drug terminology)
MDDB_2003_03 Master Drug Data Base (MDDB)
MMSL_2004_03 Multum MediSource Lexicon
MMX01 Micromedex DRUGDEX
MTHFDA_2004_01
HIPAA
CHI
FDA National Drug Code Directory
NDDF_2004_03_11 National Drug Data File
RXNORM_05Aa
CHI
RxNorm
VANDF03 VA National Drug File


Medical devices
SPN2003 Standard Product Nomenclature (USFDA)
UMD2005 Universal Medical Device Nomenclature System: Product Category Thesaurus


Nursing
PCDS97 Patient Care Data Set (PCDS) [from Vanderbilt University School of Nursing]


Indexing or synthesizing knowledge-based information

“Comprehensive” vocabularies
CSP2004 Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects (CRISP)
LCH90 Library of Congress Subject Headings
MSH2005 Medical Subject Headings


Diseases
AIR93 AI/RHEUM
DDB00 Diseases Database 2000
DXP94 DXplain (expert diagnosis program)
JABL99 Online Congenital Multiple Anomaly/Mental Retardation Syndromes
MIM93 Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM)
NCI2004 NCI Thesaurus
PDQ2004 Physician Data Query Online System (PDQ)
QMR96 Quick Medical Reference (QMR)
RAM99 QMR Clinically Related Terms


Anatomy
NEU99 Neuronames Brain Hierarchy
UWDA173 University of Washington Digital Anatomist


Consumer Health
MEDLINEPLUS_20040814 MedlinePlus Health Topics


Endoscopy
MTHMST etc Minimal Standard Terminology Digestive Endoscopy


Gene names
GO2004_03_02 Gene Ontology (GO): tool for the unification of biology
HUGO_2004_04
CHI
Human Gene Nomenclature (HUGO)
NCBI2004 NCBI Taxonomy


Substance abuse and addiction
AOD2000 Alcohol and Other Drug Thesaurus: A Guide to Concepts and Terminology in Substance Abuse and Addiction


Psychology
PSY2001 Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms


Research methodology
MCM92 Glossary of Methodologic Terms for Clinical Epidemiologic Studies of Human Disorders


Miscellaneous
HL7_1998-2002
CHI
Health Level Seven Vocabulary (HL7)


Also in the UMLS Metathesaurus (including translations)
DMDICD10-1995 German translation of ICD10
DMDUMD_1996 German translation of UMDNS
MDRPOR71 Portuguese edition of MedDRA
MDRSPA71 Spanish edition of MedDRA
MSHCZE2003 Czech translation of MeSH 2003
MSHDUT2004 Dutch translation of MeSH
MSHFIN2004 Finnish translation of MeSH
MSHFRE2005 French translation of MeSH
MSHGER2005 German translation of MeSH
MSHITA2005 Italian translation of MeSH
MSHJPN2004 Japanese translation of MeSH
MSHPOR2005 Portuguese translation of MeSH
MSHRUS2005 Russian translation of MeSH
MSHSPA2005 Spanish translation of MeSH
MSHSWE2004 Swedish translation of MeSH
MTH Source created by NLM to facilitate creation of the UMLS
MTHMSTFRE_2001 French edition of MTHMST_2001
MTHMSTITA_2001 Italian edition of MTHMST_2001
SCTSPA_2004_04_30 SNOMED Clinical Terms, Spanish Language Edition

Last reviewed: 05 February 2008
Last updated: 18 May 2006
First published: 26 March 2004
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