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McDonald CJ, Maglott D, Abhyankar S, Goodwin RM, Kanduru A, Lu S, Lynch P, Vreeman D, Wang Y, Wood G.US Realm, Chapter 14, Use Case – Clinical Genomics Code Systems. in HL7 Version 2.5.1 Implementation Guide: Lab Results Interface (LRI), DTSU3. HL7 International (Ann Arbor).
McDonald CJ, Maglott D, Abhyankar S, Goodwin RM, Kanduru A, Lu S, Lynch P, Vreeman D, Wang Y, Wood G.US Realm, Chapter 5, Use Case – Clinical Genomics Results Reporting in HL7 Version 2.5.1 Implementation Guide: Lab Results Interface (LRI), DTSU3. HL7 International (Ann Arbor).
McDonald CJ.Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes for In Vitro Diagnostic Test; Guidance for Industry and Food and Drug Administration Staff. Silver Spring, Md: Center for Devices and Radiological Health, FDA, 2018.
Vreeman DJ, Abhyankar S, McDonald CJ.Re: Unit conversions between LOINC codes Published June 19, 2017 [Letter]. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2018 May 1;25(5):614-615. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocx087.
Tang P, McDonald CJ.Computer-Based Patient-Record Systems - Chapter 9. In Shortliffe E, Perreault L, eds. Medical Informatics. New York: springer. 2001:327-358. DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-21721-5_9.
Abhyankar S, Vreeman DJ, Westra BL, Delaney CW.Comments on the Use of LOINC and SNOMED CT for Representing Nursing Data [Letter]. Int J Nurs Knowl. 2017 Aug 30. doi: 10.1111/2047-3095.12183. [Epub ahead of print]
Vreeman DJ, Abhyankar S, McDonald CJ.Unit conversions between LOINC codes Published June 19, 2017 [Letter]. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 1–3. http://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocx087.
Bodenreider O.Disease Ontologies In: Dubitzky W, Wolkenhauer O, Cho K-H, Yokota H, editors. Encyclopedia of Systems Biology: Springer; 2013. p. 578-581.
Fung KW, Bodenreider O.Knowledge representation and ontologies. Richesson RL, Andrews JE (Eds.). Clinical Research Informatics, Health Informatics, DOI 10.1007/978-1-84882-448-5_14, Springer-Verlag London Limited Publishing 2012.
McDonald CJ, Tierney WM.The effect of electronic health records on test ordering [Letter}. Health Aff (Millwood). 2012 Jun;31(6):1365; author reply 1366. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2012.0471.
McDonald CJ, McDonald MH.Electronic medical records and preserving primary care physicians' time: comment on "electronic health record-based messages to primary care providers" [Letter]. Arch Intern Med. 2012 Feb 13;172(3):285-7. doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.1678.