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• An application that manages surgical procedure requests could identify requested procedures using concepts that are subtypes of 

  Concept
  t 387713003 Surgical procedure

  . In this case, the data item in which that concept is recorded should have a meaning binding that explicitly indicates that this is a request (e.g. the expression template below). When this meaning binding is applied this data item is interpreted as a subtype of 

  Concept
  t 400999005 Procedure requested (situation)

   and not as a completed procedure.

400999005 |Procedure requested (situation)|:
      { 363589002 |Associated procedure (attribute)| = [[ +id <387713003 |Surgical procedure| ]] }|

Alternative

• • Semantic binding
    

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