Representations of health concepts: a cognitive perspective
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Representations of health concepts: a cognitive perspective
OBJECTIVE This paper studies the differences between controlled medical vocabularies that are designed as external artifacts and the mental concepts that are inside users' heads and used by users for reasoning, decision making, diagnosis, and treatment. DESIGN The major theories of concept representations developed in cognitive science were reviewed, analyzed, and compared with the major cont...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Biomedical Informatics
سال: 2002
ISSN: 1532-0464
DOI: 10.1016/s1532-0464(02)00003-5