BACKGROUND Over the past decade there has been a growing body of literature on how the Systematised Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT) can be implemented and used in different clinical settings. Yet, for those charged with incorporating SNOMED CT into their organisation's clinical applications and vocabulary systems, there are few detailed encoding instructions and examples ava...

Having codes for each and every rare disease (RD) would help European and national health authorities obtain a better knowledge of healthcare pathways and of their impact on specialised health care services (centres of expertise for instance) and on budget. It would also allow having sound data on the epidemiology and natural history of RD, and provide data for clinical research which is critic...

BACKGROUND Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine - Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT) has been designed as standard clinical terminology for annotating Electronic Health Records (EHRs). EHRs textual information is used to classify patients' diseases into an International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) category (usually by an expert). Improving the accuracy...

OBJECTIVE Allergy documentation and exchange are vital to ensuring patient safety. This study aims to analyze and compare various existing standard terminologies for representing allergy information. METHODS Five terminologies were identified, including the Systemized Nomenclature of Medical Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT), National Drug File-Reference Terminology (NDF-RT), Medication Dictionary f...

En la actualidad, las tecnologías de indización en ciencias salud están aportando muchos beneficios para el ámbito biomédico y estandarización su correspondiente terminología, puesto que esta cuestión es fundamental lograr un diagnóstico médico más preciso e inequívoco Por razón, este artículo se ha explicado con detalle cómo funcionan estas tecnologías: Terminología Anatómica Internacional (TA...

ions Products used Corresponding terms Pulpitis, periodontitis, maxillary cellulite, gingivitis, headaches, maxillary sinusitis Medical interpretation or therapeutic decision Potential positive diagnosis: pulpitis, periodontitis, maxillary cellulitis Translation Dental pain (English), yin dimi (Dioula), yende zabre (Moré) Conceptual indicators Pain Linguistic indicators French Terminology indic...

Inconsistent use of SNOMED CT concepts may reduce comparability of information in health information systems. Terminology implementation should be approached by common strategies for navigating and selecting proper concepts. This study aims to explore ways of illustrating common pathways and ancestors of particular sets of concepts, to support consistent use of SNOMED CT and also assess potenti...

Previous investigators have defined clinical interface terminology as a systematic collection of health care-related phrases (terms) that supports clinicians' entry of patient-related information into computer programs, such as clinical "note capture" and decision support tools. Interface terminologies also can facilitate display of computer-stored patient information to clinician-users. Interf...

This article discusses the importance of electronic health records (EHRs) in anesthesiology, emphasizing the critical role of standardized clinical terminology in the EHR's structure. SNOMED Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT), developed by SNOMED International, a division of the College of American Pathologists, in collaboration with the United Kingdom's National Health Service, offers a controlled hea...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study is to explore possibility of information sharing between the medical and nursing domains. METHODS Narrative medical records of 281 hospitalization days of 36 gastrectomy patients were decomposed into single-meaning statements. These single-meaning statements were combined into unique statements by removing semantically redundant statements. Concepts from t...