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Many clinical applications include data entry interfaces controlled or assisted by  protocols, templates or structured data entry forms. Each field on a data entry form may allow only a limited set of terms or concepts to be entered . The set of candidate 

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RefTypefield
tterm
 or  concept may range from very small (e.g. a set of priorities for a procedure) to very large (e.g. any general diagnosis).
Gloss
SpacePreSpacetruefalse
tReference sets
can be used to restrict the possible values that meet the requirements of a particular data entry protocol.

Examples of using reference sets to support search and data entry include:

A

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SpacePreSpacetruefalse
tSNOMED CT enabled application
GlosTermEnabled application
can use an appropriate
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SpacePreSpacetruefalse
treference set
to display the valid data entry options and constrain text searches. For more detailed use case examples, please refer to the following sections:

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