Alignment of vaccine codes using an ontology of vaccine descriptions.
Benedikt F H BeckerJan A KorsErik M van MulligenMiriam Cjm SturkenboomPublished in: Journal of biomedical semantics (2022)
The VaccO ontology allows the identification, representation, and comparison of heterogeneous descriptions of vaccines. The automatic alignment of vaccine coding systems can accelerate the readiness of EHR databases in collaborative vaccine studies.