PubMed · 11638799
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J Mildenberger. 1997. [Not Available].. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11638799/
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In the literature it is L. L. Finke's three volume work Versuch einer aligemeinen medicinisch-praktischen Geographie, 1792-1795, that is commonly cited as the first to use the term "medical geography". However, Rofort's investigations on the 18th and 19th century development of medical topography in France (1987, 1988) has revealed that a French physician, Dehorne, used the term a decade earlier, and in 1784 Dehorne suggested that a project be undertaken by the Royal Medical Society of Paris on a "Medical Geography of France". The proposal was debated in the Journal de Médecine Militaire in 1786. This correspondence probably is the earliest critique of the concept of medical geography. It was also the French who were the first to have entries on medical geography in dictionaries and encyclopedias. Dr. Jean-Noël Hallé wrote a lengthy piece conceptually placing medical geography as a foundation for medical hygienics in Encyclopédie Méthodique (1787, 1792). In 1817 Julien Virey wrote a 66 page entry on medical geography in the Dictionnaire des Sciences Médicales. Throughout the nineteenth century authors writing in the French language continued to make advances and in 1933 the French geographer Max Sorre suggested new directions for the field in the light of bacteriological discoveries and the re-orientation of medicine.
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Recent investigations have tested the applicability of various terminology models for the representing nursing concepts including those related to nursing diagnoses, nursing interventions, and standardized nursing assessments as a prerequisite for building a reference terminology that supports the nursing domain. We used the semantic structure of Clinical LOINC (Logical Observations, Identifiers, Names, and Codes) as a reference terminology model to support the integration of standardized assessment terms from two nursing terminologies into the Medical Entities Dictionary (MED), the concept-oriented, metadata dictionary at New York Presbyterian Hospital. Although the LOINC semantic structure was used previously to represent laboratory terms in the MED, selected hierarchies and semantic slots required revisions in order to incorporate the nursing assessment concepts. This project was an initial step in integrating nursing assessment concepts into the MED in a manner consistent with evolving standards for reference terminology models. Moreover, the revisions provide the foundation for adding other types of standardized assessments to the MED.