====== Vocabulary Improvement Working Group ======

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**Objective:** The objective of this workgroup (WG) is to improve the quality of the Standardized Vocabularies, to increase their coverage of especially international coding systems and clinical aspects of patient care. The purpose is to facility standardized analytics, as developed in some of the other working groups. 

**Project Lead:**  [[http://ohdsi.org/who-we-are/collaborators/christian-reich/|Christian Reich]], [[http://ohdsi.org/who-we-are/collaborators/patrick-ryan/|Patrick Ryan]]

**Start Date:** 15-Jan-2015

**Repository:**  [[https://github.com/OHDSI/vocabulary-v5.0]] (very dirty, not ready for prime time).

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