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Table 1 Semantic annotations of five randomly selected data elements in the MDM portal. For "Body weight" uniform annotation with C0005910 was achieved, for other data elements domain experts selected 2-3 coding variants

From: ODMedit: uniform semantic annotation for data integration in medicine based on a public metadata repository

Data element

#UMLS codes

#Matching UMLS codes

#Occurences in MDM portal

Semantic annotation in MDM portal

Body weight

276

23

86

86x C0005910 Body weight

Date of Birth

55

9

85

55x C0421451 Patient date of birth

30x C0011008 Date in time C0027361 Persons C0005615 Birth

Creatinine in Serum

182

13

66

44x C0201976 Creatinine measurement, serum

13x C0010294 Creatinine

9x C0201975 Creatinine measurement

Platelets

249

16

229

213x C0005821 Blood Platelets

12x C0942474 Platelets:NCnc:Pt:Bld:Qn

4x C1287267 Finding of platelet count

ALT

104

13

37

30x C0201836 Alanine aminotransferase measurement

7x C0001899 Alanine Transaminase