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. 2021 Jun 2;8:149. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00929-4

Table 1.

Source Sense Inventories.

Source Description Underlying Corpus Medical Specialty Last Updated Records
UMLS-LRABR40 Unified Medical Language System Lexical Resource for Abbreviations and Acronyms Biomedical research Multiple 2019 294484
ADAM41 Another Database of Abbreviations in Medline Biomedical research Multiple 2007 94657
Berman42 Manually-curated general pathology abbreviations Clinical notes Pathology 2004 12087
Wikipedia43 Publicly-curated list of medical and clinical trial abbreviations Clinical notes Multiple 2018 2952
Vanderbilt144 Semi-automatically derived from the medical record Sign-out notes Medicine 2013 2414
Vanderbilt244 Semi-automatically derived from the medical record Discharge notes Medicine 2013 2090
Stetson45 Manually-curated from the general medical record Sign-out notes Medicine 2002 765
Columbia Manually-curated from the obstetric medical record Clinical notes Obstetrics 2018 219