Draft Editorial Guidance

Ambiguous Concept

• The inactivated concept is inherently ambiguous, and each of the potential meanings represented by the concept is semantically identical to at least one other clinical concept.

Classification Concept

• The inactivated concept originates from the “closed world” classification paradigm and as such is inappropriate content for use within the clinical record.

Concept Moved Elsewhere

ALTERNATIVE 

• The jurisdictional control of a concept passes between extensions, or between the international core and an extension.

Duplicate Concept

SAME_AS

• The inactivated concept semantically represents exactly the meaning of the remaining active concept.
  Note that the meaning of the concept is based on the FSN.

Erroneous Concept

REPLACED_BY

• The inactivated concept has an FSN which contains an error that when corrected potentially changes the semantic meaning of the concept.

Meaning Unknown

No association required

• The meaning of the inactivated concept cannot be determined.

Non-Conformance to Editorial Policy

Outdated Concept

REPLACED_BY 

• The inactivated concept is an outdated concept that is no longer considered to be clinically acceptable or semantically interoperable internationally.