Page History

...

SNOMED CT has a number of unique features, which makes it capable of supporting a range of retrieval and analytics functions, which use reference sets. Examples include, but are not limited to.:

• Simple reference sets can be used to represent subsets of SNOMED CT concepts which can be used in queries to identify clinical records
• Simple reference sets can be used to represent non-standard aggregations of concepts for specific use cases
• Simple map reference sets, complex and extended map reference sets can be used to define maps from other code systems to SNOMED CT so that clinical data can be prepared for analytics, and then performed using SNOMED CT
• Simple reference sets and ordered reference sets can be used to define language or dialect specific sets of descriptions over which lexical searches can be performed

...