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Page At A Glance
1 Introduction
SNOMED CT terminology provides a common language that enables a consistent way of indexing, storing, retrieving, and aggregating clinical data across specialties and sites of care.
The International Health Terminology Standards Development organisation (IHTSDO®), trading as SNOMED International, maintains the SNOMED CT technical design, the content architecture, the SNOMED CT content (includes the concepts table, the descriptions table, the relationships table, a history table, and ICD mappings), and related technical documentation.
2 Background
This document provides a summarized description of the content changes included in the March 2020 Production release of the SNOMED Clinical Terms® Managed Service Belgium Extension package.
It will also includes technical notes detailing the known issues which have been identified (should any of these exist). These are content or technical issues where the root cause is understood, and the fix has been discussed and agreed, but has yet to be implemented.
This Belgium Extension package is dependent upon, and should therefore be consumed in conjunction with the SNOMED CT® January 2020 International Edition release.
2.1 Scope
This document is written for the purpose described above and is not intended to provide details of the technical specifications for SNOMED CT or encompass every change made during the release.
3 Content Development Activity
3.1 Summary
Content from the SNOMED CT® January 2020 International Edition release has been translated.
This extension contains concepts, relationships and reference sets with their Dutch and French translations for healthcare professionals.
3.2 New and Updated Content
New Belgian content in this release:
The extension contains for the first time 3 "reference sets"; these are simple reference sets for translated plant materials, animal materials and edible substances.
Another 7015 concepts were translated in French and Dutch.
The concepts that were translated belong to the following hierarchies:
FRENCH
FR | acceptability | Total (ALL) | |
|---|---|---|---|
hierarchy | Acceptable | Preferred | |
event | 5 | 1 | 6 |
finding | 9 | 145 | 154 |
metadata |
| 3 | 3 |
organism | 5 | 1 | 6 |
procedure | 5 | 1 | 6 |
product |
| 6090 | 6090 |
situation | 5 | 6 | 11 |
substance | 121 | 768 | 889 |
Total (ALL) | 150 | 7015 | 7165 |
DUTCH
NL | acceptability | Total (ALL) | |
|---|---|---|---|
hierarchy | Acceptable | Preferred | |
event | 5 | 1 | 6 |
finding | 7 | 145 | 152 |
metadata | 3 | 3 | |
organism | 5 | 1 | 6 |
procedure | 5 | 1 | 6 |
product | 6090 | 6090 | |
situation | 5 | 6 | 11 |
substance | 10 | 768 | 778 |
Total (ALL) | 37 | 7015 | 7052 |
Differences with September release | Number of RF2 records impacted | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
Concept files | 3 | 3 new records added for new refsets, as part of latest editing cycle |
AttributeValue files | 226 | 226 new records added as part of latest editing cycle |
Description files (EN) | 6 | 6 added for new refsets, as part of latest editing cycle |
Description files (FR) | 7096 | 7073 added, plus 23 inactivated as part of latest editing cycle |
Description files (NL) | 7279 | 7234 added, plus 45 inactivated as part of latest editing cycle |
Language files (EN) | 6 | 6 added for new refsets, as part of latest editing cycle |
Language files (FR) | 7097 | 7074 added, plus 23 inactivated as part of latest editing cycle |
Language files (NL) | 7294 | 7249 added, plus 45 inactivated as part of latest editing cycle |
Inferred Relationship files | 3 | 3 new records added for new refsets, as part of latest editing cycle (PLUS 9596 records removed completely as requested, see technical notes) |
OWLExpression files | 5 | 3 new records added for new refsets, as part of latest editing cycle |
RefsetDescriptor files | 3 | 3 new records added for new refsets, as below |
Translated Plant Materials Simple Refset | 213 | 213 new records added for this new refset (551000172106), as part of latest editing cycle |
Translated Edible Substances Simple Refset | 434 | 434 new records added for this new refset (541000172109), as part of latest editing cycle |
Translated Animal Materials Simple Refset | 101 | 101 new records added for this new refset (561000172108), as part of latest editing cycle |
4 Technical notes
4.1 Known Issues
Known Issues are content or technical issues where the root cause is understood, and the resolution has been discussed and agreed but has yet to be implemented. This can be due to a number of reasons, from lack of capacity within the current editing cycle, to the risk of impact to the stability of SNOMED CT if the fix were to be deployed at that stage in the Product lifecycle.
For the SNOMED CT Managed Service - Belgium Extension Release, the following Known Issues were identified, and agreed to be resolved in the next editing cycle:
4.2 Technical notes
The unwanted additional records (since September 2018) in the file with the inferred relationships are removed.
Approvals
Final Version | Date | Approver | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0 | Terance Shird | ||
| 1.0 |
| Ingrid Mertens | Approved |
| 1.0 |
| Rory Davidson |
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Draft Amendment History
Version | Date | Editor | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
0.1 | | Andrew Atkinson | Initial draft created |
| 1.0 |
| Ingrid Mertens | Final updates |