Case report medical eponyms: an applied clinical informatics opportunity.
Medical eponyms are medical words derived from people's names. Eponyms, especially similar sounding eponyms, may be confusing to people trying to use them because the terms themselves do not contain physiologically descriptive words about the condition they refer to. Through the use of electronic health records (EHRs), embedded applied clinical informatics tools including synonyms and pick lists that include physiologically descriptive terms associated with any eponym appearing in the EHR [...]
Author(s): Baskaran, L N Guptha Munugoor, Greco, P J, Kaelber, D C
DOI: 10.4338/ACI-2012-05-CR-0019