Searching for concepts in the Metathesaurus using Approximate Match is not available. When will it become available?
During prototyping and beta testing of the UMLSKS, developer’s encountered issues with generating the necessary datafiles to allow the approximate matching option to work properly. Since a small number of clients had been issuing requests for this type of string searching, the development staff shifted the priority of this task to a later date. The staff hopes to reenable this string searching feature by November 2008.