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. 2016 Nov 24;4(4):e41. doi: 10.2196/medinform.5748

Table 2.

Top 20 mostly covered UMLS source vocabularies.


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Rank Blogs (n=2415) Questions (n=6452) Answers (n=10,378)
Source vocabulary # of concepts % Source vocabulary # of concepts % Source vocabulary # of concepts %
1 SNOMED CT 2315 95.9 SNOMED CT 5476 84.9 SNOMED CT 9032 87.0
2 CHV 1931 80.0 CHV 4928 76.4 CHV 7625 73.5
3 MTH 1774 73.5 MTH 3899 60.4 MTH 5780 55.7
4 NCIt 1156 47.9 MeSH 2957 45.8 MeSH 4796 46.2
5 MeSH 1130 46.8 NCIt 2917 45.2 NCIt 4485 43.2
6 CSP 812 33.6 CSP 1840 28.5 NDFRT 2999 28.9
7 AOD 775 32.1 NDFRT 1775 27.5 CSP 2839 27.4
8 LCH_NW 771 31.9 LCH_NW 1627 25.2 LCH_NW 2436 23.5
9 LOINC 697 28.9 AOD 1585 24.6 AOD 2335 22.5
10 NDFRT 659 27.3 LOINC 1510 23.4 RXNORM 2099 20.2
11 LCH 587 24.3 RXNORM 1421 22.0 LOINC 2081 20.1
12 NCI_NCI-GLOSS 475 19.7 LCH 1187 18.4 LCH 1730 16.7
13 MEDLINEPLUS 402 16.6 NCI_NCI-GLOSS 952 14.8 NCI_FDA 1387 13.4
14 CST 365 15.1 NCI_FDA 868 13.5 DXP 1322 12.7
15 COSTAR 362 15.0 COSTAR 835 12.9 NCI_NCI-GLOSS 1321 12.7
16 NCI_FDA 345 14.3 DXP 830 12.9 COSTAR 1257 12.1
17 OMIM 342 14.2 CST 794 12.3 OMIM 1234 11.9
18 RXNORM 338 14.0 OMIM 790 12.2 CST 1206 11.6
19 DXP 326 13.5 MEDLINEPLUS 721 11.2 VANDF 1117 10.8
20 ICD9CM 241 10.0 VANDF 644 10.0 MTHSPL 1033 10.0