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An iconic language for the graphical representation of medical concepts

Jean-Baptiste Lamy1 email, Catherine Duclos1 email, Avner Bar-Hen1 email, Patrick Ouvrard2 email and Alain Venot1 email

1Laboratoire d'Informatique Médicale et de Bioinformatique (LIM&BIO), UFR SMBH, Université Paris 13, 74 rue Marcel Cachin, 93017 Bobigny cedex, France

2Société de Formation Thérapeutique du Généraliste (SFTG), 233 bis rue de Tolbiac, 75013 Paris, France

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BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2008, 8:16doi:10.1186/1472-6947-8-16

Published: 24 April 2008

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Additional file 1:

VCM language learning and reference manual. The complete manual of the VCM language. It includes dictionaries that give the VCM icons corresponding to the main diseases, drugs therapeutic classes, laboratory tests,... This manual is an English translation of the paper manual that was given to the physician during the evaluation.

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