1. MeSH-Thesaurus

• MeSH Thesaurus (Medical Subject Headings), National Library of Medicine (NLM), Bethesda, USA (HYTEXT, DOCU, VOC)
  Factsheets with a short description of MeSH and links to further NLM publications that can be ordered electronically. The MeSH can be downloaded and a MeSH-Browser can be used.
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• German translation of the MeSH Thesaurus, DIMDI-Institute, Köln, Germany [only in German]
  (HYTEXT, DOCU)
  Basic information and electronical demo-versions of the German translation of the MeSH thesaurus (Main-headings as systematic and alphabetic version). The full versions can be ordered from DIMDI. The German translation of MeSH is already included in the 1999 UMLS edition.
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2. SNOMED-Nomenclature

• SNOMED International (Systematized Nomenclature of Human and Veterinary Medicine),
  College of American Pathologists (CAP), Canada, (HYTEXT, Powerpoint-Demos)
  The server provides information about SNOMED´s modules, about updates, conversion tables, microglossaries, translations, costs & licensing and who is using SNOMED.
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• AVMA Secretariat to SNOMED International (veterinary organizations)
  (HYTEXT, ORDER)
  Introduction and description of the SNOMED-Nomenclature. 
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3. READ Code

• Read Codes, Version 3 , Computer Aided Medical Systems Limited (CAMS), Leicestershire, UK
  (HYTEXT)
  CAMS distributes the Read Codes and offers support to users on behalf of the Department of Health. All there services and questions about Read Codes (like cross-references to ICD/OPCS codes) are discussed.
  
  
• "The Read Codes: Towards a Common Language of Health":
  (DOCU)
  online available article from Dr. Charlie Stuart-Buttle in "Informatics in Healthcare Australia" that is published 1993 by the "Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA)".
  
  
• An Evalutation Methodology for Clinical Vocabularies and Evaluation of the Read Codes, Version 3.0 (DOCU)
  At the Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science, held at the School of Library and Information Studies (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta) in 1995 there was a talk from Lorraine Toews (Health Sciences Library, University of Saskatchewan) with that title.
  
  

4. Other LinkLists and Vocabularies

• LinkList provided by the EU-project "EURO-MED-DATA"
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• LinkList provided by OpenGALEN !
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• List of Vocabularies recognised by the HL7 - standard.
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• List of Vocabularies, included into the UMLS- ressources.
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• LOINC (The Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes):
  Information about LOINC and the RELMA - Software is provided  by the Regenstrief Institute.

5. Other relevant Information

• Vocabularies for Computer-Based Patient Records: Identifying Candidates for Large Scale Testing, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD, December 5-6, 1994. (DOCU)
  Detailed protocoll of a discussion of experts with different expertise and from different institutions to the question "How suitable are existing controlled vocabularies (coding schemes) for different puposes ?".
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• Making a Powerful Connection: the Health of the Public and the National Information Infrastructure (NII)
  Report of the U.S. Public Health Service Public Health Data Policy Coordinating Committee (July 6, 1995). Detailed document about the impact of a National Information Infrastructure (NII) for health care.
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• Moving Toward International Standards in Primary Care Information: Clinical Vocabulary
  Conference Summary Report, New Orleans, November 1995
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