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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Nov 13.
Published in final edited form as: Methods Inf Med. 2006;45(6):594–601.

Figure 1.

Figure 1

A Unified Modeling Language (UML) Class Diagram describing CDE content. The key classes tables from the perspective of element use are Concepts, Value Domains, Data Elements and Choices. The classes are implemented as relational tables: in each class, the symbols ≪PK≫ and ≪FK≫ indicate primary and foreign keys, respectively.