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. 2005 Jul-Aug;12(4):486–494. doi: 10.1197/jamia.M1767

Table 7.

Effect of Matching Name in Another UMLS Concept on the Odds of Splitting in Nonsynonymous Cases (N = 38)

Has Exact Matching Name in Another UMLS Concept
Result of Editing Yes No
Split 17 2
Not split 3 16
Odds of being split (no. split/no. not split) 5.67 0.125

UMLS = Unified Medical Language System.