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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

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    telectronic health records.

  • Is mapped to other international standards.
  • Is already used in more than fifty eighty countries.

When implemented in software applications,

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tSNOMED CT
can be used to represent clinically relevant information consistently, reliably and comprehensively as an integral part of producing electronic health information.

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SNOMED CT Design and Development

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  • For example, the

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      |viral pneumonia| has a |causative agent| relationship to the
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    |virus| and a |finding site|
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    to the
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     |lung|.

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tSNOMED CT
 is a multinational, multilingual terminology. It has a built-in framework to manage different
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 includes a set of language independent
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tSNOMED CT
 is is available in US English, UK English, Spanish, Danish and Swedish. Partial many 
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 into Canadian French, Lithuanian, and several other
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The
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that can be viewed in the SNOMED International SNOMED CT Browser. The basic objective of any
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tSNOMED CT
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 is to provide accurate representations of
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tSNOMED CT concepts
 in a way that is understandable, usable, and safe.
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must be
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 and take account of its position within the
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. This enables a meaningful
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 based on phrases that are well used and clearly understood in all countries.
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tSNOMED International
 maintains guidelines and other materials to support countries undertaking translations.

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