(clinical-acronym-metathesaurus)

This repository contains all files for the creation and use of the Clinical Abbreviation and Acronym Metathesaurus, as described in the following paper:

Grossman LV*, Mitchell EG*, Hripcsak G, Weng C, Vawdrey DK. A Method for Harmonization of Clinical Abbreviation and Acronym Sense Inventories. Journal of Biomedical Informatics. 2018 Nov 7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbi.2018.11.004

Clinical Abbreviation and Acronym Metathesaurus: A database of clinical abbreviations and acronyms, and their possible senses. To create the metathesaurus, we merged several known databases of clinical abbreviations and acronyms.

The metathesaurus is a project of the Columbia University Department of Biomedical Informatics.

This folder contains the most recent version of the Clinical Abbreviation and Acronym Metathesaurus. Please refer to the "Files.txt" file for a list of the available data files in the metathesaurus.

This folder contains all publically-available source databases used to create the metathesaurus.

This folder contains all code used to create the final Metathesaurus.

Please refer to the README.md file internal to the folder for more information.