Development of the Gender, Sex, and Sexual Orientation ontology: Evaluation and workflow

• Published in: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA Vol. 27; no. 7; pp. 1110 - 1115
• Main Authors: Kronk, Clair A, Dexheimer, Judith W
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Oxford University Press 01.07.2020
• Subjects: Biological Ontologies; Brief Communications; Female; Gender Identity; Humans; Male; Medical Subject Headings; Sex; Sexual and Gender Minorities - classification; Sexual Behavior - classification; gender identity; biological ontologies; sexual behavior; gender and sexual minorities; sex

Abstract Objective The study sought to create an integrated vocabulary system that addresses the lack of standardized health terminology in gender and sexual orientation. Materials and Methods We evaluated computational efficiency, coverage, query-based term tagging, randomly selected term tagging,...