This section provides an overview of:
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LinkTypesubtle features Exploring
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SNOMED - design and development
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- components and glossary-ref
- SNOMED CT characteristics
- SNOMED CT supporting different languages
- SNOMED CT products and services
Why is this important?
An awareness of
glossary-ref features,
glossary-ref, characteristics and products provides an initial foundation on which to build greater understanding. It also informs discussions leading to decisions about adoption, implementation and use of this terminology.
What is this?
SNOMED CT Features
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:
- Is the most comprehensive, multilingual clinical healthcare terminology in the world.
- Is a resource with comprehensive, scientifically validated clinical content.
Enables consistent, processable representation of clinical content in
glossary-ref - Is mapped to other international standards.
- Is already used in more than fifty countries.
When implemented in software applications, SNOMED
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can be used to represent clinically relevant information consistently, reliably and comprehensively as an integral part of producing electronic health information.
Implementation requires an understanding of the way that
glossary-ref content is represented by
glossary-ref and supported by
glossary-ref (Refsets).
Exploring SNOMED CT
While reading the guide, you may find it useful to explore the content of
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listed on our web site at
http://snomed.org/browsers. Note that the listed
glossary-ref are not endorsed by
glossary-ref and they should only be used to a get feel for the content and structure of the terminology. It is useful to experiment with several different
glossary-ref as they vary in the way they present particular features of the terminology.
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SNOMED CT is a core clinical healthcare terminology that contains
glossary-refLinkTypesubtlewith unique meanings and formal logic based definitions organized into
glossary-ref.
glossary-ref content is represented using three types of
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- which link appropriate human readable glossary-ref to glossary-refglossary-ref
- which link each concept to other related glossary-ref
These
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Concepts
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represent clinical thoughts, ranging from
|abscess
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|zygote
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are organized from the general to the more detailed. This allows detailed clinical data to be recorded and later accessed or aggregated at a more general level.
Descriptions
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link appropriate human readable terms to
glossary-ref. A
glossary-ref can have several associated
glossary-ref, each representing a
glossary-ref that describes the same clinical concept. Each
glossary-ref of
glossary-ref includes an additional set of
glossary-ref, which link
glossary-ref in another
glossary-ref to the same
glossary-ref . Every
glossary-ref has a unique numeric
glossary-ref Relationships
glossary-ref
link concepts to other
glossary-ref whose meaning is related in some way. These
glossary-ref provide formal definitions and other properties of the
glossary-ref. One type of
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is the
glossary-ref which relates a
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to more general
glossary-ref. These
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define the
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of
glossary-ref For example, the
glossary-ref |bacterial pneumonia| and |viral pneumonia| both have an |is a| relationship to |infective pneumonia| which has an |is a| relationship to the more general glossary-ref |pneumonia|.
Other types of
glossary-ref represent aspects of the meaning of a
glossary-refFor example, the
glossary-ref |viral pneumonia| has a |causative agent| relationship to the glossary-ref|virus| and a |finding site|| Glossary ref |
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to the glossary-ref |lung|.
Every
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relationship |
Reference sets
glossary-ref
(Refsets) are a flexible standard approach used by
glossary-ref to support a variety of requirements for customization and enhancement of
glossary-ref . These include the representation of
glossary-ref, language preferences for use of particular
glossary-ref and
glossary-ref from or to other code systems. Every
glossary-ref has a unique numeric
glossary-ref SNOMED CT Hierarchies
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are organized in hierarchies. Within a
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hierarchy |
range from the more general to the more detailed. Related
glossary-ref in the
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are linked using the
|is a
| relationship.
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SNOMED CT Characteristics - Comprehensive, Scalable and Flexible
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SNOMED
has a broad coverage of health related topics. It can be used to describe a patient's medical history, the details of an orthopedic procedure, the spread of epidemics, and much more. At the same time, the terminology has an unmatched depth, which enables clinicians to record data at the appropriate level of granularity.
Specific applications tend to focus on a restricted set of
glossary-ref , such as
glossary-ref related to ophthalmology. These
glossary-ref can be used to present relevant parts of the terminology, depending on the clinical context and local requirements. This means for example, that a drop down list to select diagnoses in an
glossary-ref in a mental health facility can be tailored to that setting. Similarly,
glossary-ref can be defined for problem lists for physician specialties or to provide appropriate medication lists for nurses in community care.
When individual jurisdictions have needs beyond those that can be reflected in a global terminology, perhaps due to requirements in local legislation, they can develop local or national
glossary-ref. Thus, even though
glossary-ref is global in scope, it can be adapted to each country's or areas requirements.
glossary-ref maps work to provide explicit links to health related classifications and coding schemes in use around the world, e.g.
glossary-ref such as
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glossary-ref, and
glossary-ref. Maps to or from several national code systems are also available from, or under development, by
glossary-ref. Maps to or from clinical domain specific code systems are also maintained by specialty groups with which
glossary-ref has collaborative agreement. Maps facilitate reuse of
glossary-ref based clinical data for other purposes, such as reimbursement or statistical reporting.
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Supporting Different Languages
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is a multinational, multilingual terminology. It has a built-in framework to manage different
glossary-ref and
glossary-ref. The
glossary-ref includes a set of language independent
glossary-ref and
glossary-ref. Today,
glossary-ref is available in US English, UK English, Spanish, Danish and Swedish. Partial
glossary-ref into Canadian French, Lithuanian, and several other
glossary-ref are currently taking place, and further
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language |
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are being planned by
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The basic objective of any
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SNOMED CT |
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is to provide accurate representations of
glossary-ref in a way that is understandable, usable, and safe.
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must be
glossary-ref based. Translators need to analyse
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based on the
glossary-ref and take account of its position within the
glossary-ref, its
glossary-ref, and its
glossary-ref to other
glossary-ref. This enables a meaningful
glossary-ref of a
glossary-ref based on phrases that are well used and clearly understood in all countries.
glossary-ref maintains guidelines and other materials to support countries undertaking translations.
SNOMED CT Products and Services
glossary-ref
and organizations covered by the SNOMED CT
glossary-ref have access to a range of products and services, including:
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