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| Item | Hierarchy | MOVED FROM PROPOSED CHANGES TO PUBLISHED CHANGES | Confirmed Release Date |
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| 1. | Content Improvement | Urinary Bladder Following feedback from translation, descriptions for concepts that contain the word 'bladder' and the site of 89837001|Urinary bladder structure (body structure)| will be updated to include 'urinary' in the FSN and PT, for example: 126885006|Neoplasm of bladder (disorder) will be updated to 126885006|Neoplasm of urinary bladder (disorder). | January 2024 International Release |
| 2. | Product | International Unit in Descriptions for Clinical Drugs 'International Unit' as a description is arbitrary and to be understood each product requires reference to a particular bioefficacy specification for that entity. Therefore, 'international' is not meaningful or comparable as a description at Clinical Drug level. International unit will be represented as 'unit' in Clinical Drug descriptions and 20 concepts will have their descriptions changed to 'unit' Note: abbreviations will not be used. Editorial Guidance has been drafted. | January 2024 International Release |
| 3. | Procedure | Inactivation of “RAST” and “RAST test” from subtypes of 104380004 |Allergen specific antibody measurement (procedure)| Based on a proposal by the Allergies and Hypersensitivities CRG, descriptions containing “RAST” and “RAST test” will be inactivated from the concepts in this sub-hierarchy as they are not considered real synonyms. Immunoassays for immunoglobulin specific to an allergen of interest are widely used in the diagnosis of allergic disease. These tests are often incorrectly referred to collectively as "radioallergosorbent tests" ("RAST") because they were the earliest immunoassays to be used extensively. There are a few concepts of type "X mix radioallergosorbent test (procedure)", where RAST is in fact part of FSN. These concepts will be inactivated as they are ambiguous because they do not mention what allergens are being tested for. Replacement concepts, where individual allergens are spelled out, will be created where the information is available. | January 2024 2024 International Release |
Project Information and Work in Progress
Item | Hierarchy/Topic | INFORMATION ABOUT PROJECTS AND WORK IN PROGRESS | Planned Release timing (*this is provisional only and is subject to change) |
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| 1. | General Information | Browse Content Changes for the International Release For content changes that are ready for publication in the next release please browse here Concept Inactivation For concept inactivations that are for publication in the next release please browse here MRCM Changes Forthcoming MRCM changes can be viewed here Content Request Service (CRS) For information please see here | |
| 2. | Project Information | Cancer Synoptic Reporting Concepts representing cancer synoptic reporting content will be added to the International release starting with the July 2021 release. Cancer synoptic reports are used by many member countries to record pathology examination of cancer specimens including the College of American Pathologists (US and Canada), Royal College of Pathology (UK), Royal College of Pathology Australasia (Australia, New Zealand), PALGA (The Netherlands), Swedish Society of Pathology, and others. This content primarily encompasses observable entity concepts and also includes supporting concepts from other hierarchies, e.g. property values. For more information about this project, please see the Cancer Synoptic Reporting Clinical Project Group here | 2024 International Release and future releases |
| 3. | Project Information | Epilepsy Content ILAE Collaboration Review of << 313287004 |Seizure related finding (finding)| and << 84757009 |Epilepsy (disorder)| (excluding Orphanet related content) for currency and clinical correctness with the addition of missing clinically relevant content. Please refer to the project status report for further information. | 2024 International Release and future releases Expected completion by mid 2024 |
| 4. | Content Improvement | Implementation of the new anatomy concept model The completion of the revision of hierarchical relationships provides stable anatomy content and improves the quality of classification results in other hierarchies. Over forthcoming releases, the plan is to implement the new anatomy concept model. There are almost 35,000 anatomy concepts and they will be modeled by different types of 'part of' relationships. The new model will enable us to automatically generate hierarchies to further improve quality and consistency. Information about the work completed in previous release for revision of IS_A relationships can be viewed here | 2024 International Release and future releases |