Disease knowledge bases

Diseases Database

Cross-referenced medical reference
"A long-running web of differential-diagnosis cross-references."
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About the resource

Diseases Database is a small, long-standing UK-based commercial project that maps thousands of diseases, symptoms, medications and chemicals into a cross-referenced web — the kind of 'this leads to that' lookup useful when working up a differential. Each entry is linked to ICD-10, OMIM, MeSH and other vocabularies, and the dataset is included in the UMLS Metathesaurus.

It's less comprehensive than the major disease compendia but is fast for quick lookups of associations between conditions, signs and substances. The site is free; the underlying dataset is licensable.

What you'd use it for

  1. 01Quickly find diseases associated with a symptom or drug
  2. 02Cross-reference an unfamiliar term to ICD, OMIM and MeSH
  3. 03Use within UMLS-based clinical-NLP pipelines

How you access it

Web UIUMLS Metathesaurus distribution

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