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SNOMED CT Design and Development
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These
are supplemented by
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, which provide additional flexible features and enable configuration of the terminology to address different requirements.
Concepts
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represent clinical thoughts, ranging from
|abscess
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|zygote
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has a unique numeric
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. Within each
are organized from the general to the more detailed. This allows detailed clinical data to be recorded and later accessed or aggregated at a more general level.
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For example, the
|bacterial pneumonia| and |viral pneumonia| both have an |is a| relationship to |infective pneumonia| which has an |is a| relationship to the more general |pneumoniainfectious disease of lung|.
Other types of
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represent aspects of the meaning of a
For example, the
|viral pneumonia| has a |causative agent| relationship to the |virus| and a |finding site| | Gloss |
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to the |structure of parenchyma of lung|.
Every
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has a unique numeric
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- Examples of some of the hierarchies include |clinical finding|, |procedure|, |observable entity|, |body structure| and |organism|.
SNOMED CT Characteristics - Comprehensive, Scalable and Flexible
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When individual jurisdictions have needs beyond those that can be reflected in a global terminology, perhaps due to requirements in local legislation, they can develop local or national
. Thus, even though
is global in scope, it can be adapted to each country's or areas requirements.
maps work to provide explicit links to health related classifications and coding schemes in use around the world, e.g.
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such as such as , and . Maps to or from several national code systems are also available from, or under development, by
. Maps to or from clinical domain specific code systems are also maintained by specialty groups with which
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has collaborative agreement. Maps facilitate reuse of
based clinical data for other purposes, such as reimbursement or statistical reporting.
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Supporting Different Languages
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