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Linking SNOMED CT to Guidelines

SNOMED CT Annotation Reference Sets can be used as a mechanism to define, share, and distribute links from SNOMED CT components to appropriate guidelines. This approach involves defining one or more links to relevant guidelines (using a URL) as a string based annotation for each relevant concept. An example of this is shown in

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. In this example, the same clinical guideline is relevant to more than one SNOMED CT concept.

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This enables contextually relevant clinical knowledge to be presented to the user, based on the specific codes recorded in the patient's health record. The diagram below illustrates this scenario:

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Upon entry of a specific diagnosis, a contextually relevant knowledge resource is presented on the user interface

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