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A gap analysis of survivorship terminology: Knowledge resources versus literature usage
Author(s) -
Blake Catherine,
Kim Jenna,
Mathur Milind,
Aggarwal Akanksha
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
proceedings of the association for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.193
H-Index - 14
ISSN - 2373-9231
DOI - 10.1002/pra2.137
Subject(s) - survivorship curve , terminology , cancer survivorship , set (abstract data type) , ontology , inclusion (mineral) , computer science , cancer , psychology , knowledge management , linguistics , medicine , epistemology , social psychology , philosophy , programming language
Survivorship is arguably the most important endpoint in a cancer clinical trial. Our goal is to compare the extent to which survivorship concepts within existing medical knowledge resources adequately capture how authors describe survivorship when reporting the inclusion criterion and outcomes from studies of 5 breast cancer treatments. Results show that MESH and the NCI thesauri provide good coverage with respect to set of core survivorship concepts that appear frequently in text; further work, however, is required to account for modifiers used by authors so that noun phrases in literature are accurately aligned with the corresponding concept in a given ontology.