illustrates some of the use cases that SNOMED CT reference sets  support. Furthermore, it includes some typical example uses for each use case, and presents the types of reference sets relevant to these example. You can click on the diagrams and the text to navigate to the subpage, which provides more information about each of the use cases, examples and reference sets. The examples shown in the table are not exhaustive. Instead, they illustrate some common scenarios for each type of reference set.

Reference set use cases
USE CASEEXAMPLESREFERENCE SET

Ordered reference set

Language reference set

Query specification reference set

Annotation reference set

Simple reference set

Query specification reference set

  

Simple map reference set (specification)

Complex and extended map reference set (specification)

Simple reference set  

Query specification reference sets

Language reference set

Simple reference set  

Association reference set

Attribute value reference set

Association reference set