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Terminology binding of cancer pathology reporting protocols is specific to each particular malignant neoplasm type as defined by the publishing entity, such as the College of American Pathologists or the International Collaboration on Cancer Reporting.
Association of SNOMED CT concept with published data elements entails understanding the protocol content, the terminology definitions and any conditional logic based on "nesting" of questions, that is necessary observable entity/observation data to record.
Optimally, the publishing bodies of the reporting protocols will incorporate and distribute SNOMED CT - Data element bindings as part of their documentation or software functionality. Given their domain expertise and the stakeholders they represent, these organization are well positioned to be qualified stewards of content and domain-specific distribution of encoded reporting protocols.
The basics of content binding are described in the following pages.
Overview
Content Tools
Apps