Table 4
Categories of Semantic Coverage for Interface Terms Covered by SNOMED CT
| Semantic Coverage Category | MEDCIN | CHISL |
| No semantic linkages needed | 14 (3.2%) | 232 (49.1%) |
| Necessary semantic linkages present | 241 (55.1%) | 80 (16.9%) |
| Necessary semantic linkages incomplete | 182 (41.6%) | 160 (33.9%) |
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CHISL = categorical health information structured lexicon; SNOMED CT = systematized nomenclature of medicine clinical terms.
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p<0.001 for table.
