The Taxonomic Structuring of Medical Information and its Usefulness in this Form^[*]

An outline has been presented in historical fashion of the steps devised to organize the central core of medical information allowing the subject matter, the patient, to define the nature and the progression of the diseases from which he suffers, with and without therapy; and approaches have been made to organize this information in such fashion as to align the definitions in orderly fashion to teach both diagnostic strategy and the content of the diseases by programmed instruction.

Verfasser gibt einen kurzen Überblick über die Bemühungen zur Aufbereitung des wesentlichen Inhalts medizinischer Information in einer Form, die es gestatten würde, die Ursachen der Krankheiten und deren Geschehensverlauf mit und ohne Therapieeinfluß beim leidenden Patienten zu verfolgen. Bisher sind erste Schritte unternommen worden, diese Informationen so zu erfassen, daß auf Grund der Definitionen mittels programmierter Instruktionen sowohl eine diagnostische Strategie möglich wird, als auch Auskünfte über das jeweilige Krankheitsbild erhalten werden können.

^* Paper presented at the 9. Annual Meeting of the »Arbeitsausschuß Medizin« in der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Dokumentation, October 19-21, 1964, Bonn, Germany.

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