SNOMED CT has inherited a large number of 'administrative' concepts from the contributing clinical terminologies, Read Codes and SNOMED RT. Due to the very nature of health care administration this content reflects the processes and procedures inherent within the local national health and care systems and in many instances it is not possible to share these administrative concepts across international boundaries.
The international release of SNOMED CT should only contain those concepts which share an unambiguous and internationally agreed meaning. Where this is not the case the concepts should either be inactivated or returned to those individual realms where the concepts are used and have an agreed national meaning.
The objectives of this project are:
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