Stream: terminology
Topic: NCI Thesaurus
Lee Surprenant (Sep 28 2017 at 12:05):
Is there a standard URI for the NCI Thesaurus that folks are using?
Lee Surprenant (Sep 28 2017 at 12:11):
I found and commented on https://gforge.hl7.org/gf/project/fhir/tracker/?action=TrackerItemEdit&tracker_item_id=12675 but no update since January. I guess the guidance is to use the OID (urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.3.26.1.1) until there is an "official" uri?
Rob Hausam (Sep 28 2017 at 12:42):
It sounds like we should get this on the Vocab agenda in the near future. We have a backlog of tracker items that we need to get through and are planning to set up additional FHIR Vocab calls to speed that up. Can anyone suggest a contact at NCI that we should talk with?
Grahame Grieve (Oct 03 2017 at 05:45):
spec says http://ncimeta.nci.nih.gov
Grahame Grieve (Oct 03 2017 at 05:45):
see http://build.fhir.org/terminologies-systems.html
Rob Hausam (Oct 03 2017 at 05:53):
Rather confusingly, NCI Metathesaurus (http://ncimeta.nci.nih.gov) and NCI Thesaurus (https://ncit.nci.nih.gov/ncitbrowser/) aren't the same thing, so I don't think helps with Lee's and Rick Geimer's issue.
Grahame Grieve (Oct 03 2017 at 05:53):
oh. that caught me out for sure
Grahame Grieve (Oct 03 2017 at 05:56):
is there codes that are in NCI thesauras that aren't in the metathesaurus? why would you use one and not the other?
Peter Jordan (Oct 03 2017 at 08:39):
ISO 704:2009 can be downloaded from several sites - Google will find them for you.
Lee Surprenant (Oct 03 2017 at 17:21):
NCI Metathesaurus is like all of the National Library of Medicine's UMLS Metathesaurus. With all the complexity (licensing and coding) that entails. 2,700,000 concepts. NCIt is more like a single terminology. ~130,000 "classes"
https://wiki.nci.nih.gov/display/EVS/NCI+Thesaurus+versus+NCI+Metathesaurus for a full comparison but they are quite different.
Peter Lamb (Oct 16 2017 at 18:37):
Larry Wright is a good technical contact at NCI Thesaurus: "Wright, Larry (NIH/NCI) [E]" <lwright@mail.nih.gov>
Peter Lamb (Oct 16 2017 at 18:38):
We work with Larry and the clinical NCIt team quite a bit on some projects we have going on at NCCN
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