- Consultation with the Community of Practice
Moving content from SNOMED International Edition to a local NRC must always be done in consultation with the recipient authority. Consideration should also be given to wider consultation with the community of practice to establish whether the proposed inactivation of the concepts causes significant concern. - Provision of an ALTERNATIVE target concept
It is possible that the concept moved from the International Edition to a local NRC may have been used by other members of the Community of Practice, therefore, where possible a suitable alternative, where it exists, should be provided.- This would normally be a single "Alternative"
- The use of 2 or more alternatives would indicate that there is some ambiguity in the inactivated concept but this does not imply that the sum of the “Alternatives” is semantically equivalent e.g. this is not “POSSIBLY_EQUIVALENT_TO”.
- Where no "alternative" is chosen this implies that the concept is so specific to the recipient jurisdiction that its use in any other jurisdiction would be deemed inappropriate. A drop-down box stating “No suitable alternative exists” with an additional text field to give the reason why no historical association is deemed appropriate.
- Annotation
Describe the reasons for moving the concept elsewhere e.g., Veterinary content or forms only relevant to the UK, etc.
If the return of the content results from a change in Editorial Policy state the policy. - Dropdown list (Where no replacement is appropriate)
No suitable replacement concept identified
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