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- https://www.snomed.org/news/blog%3A-snomed-international-seeks-community-feedback-on-proposed-description-character-limit-increase
- https://confluence.ihtsdotools.org/display/mag/SNOMED+International+Proposal+to+Increase+Description+Length+Limit
- https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1cBxZnJDV5cy_5hkWaCc02xXhFaz8-2c6JI6yppQ8QUE/viewform?edit_requested=true
Please note the following key points to consider and feed back on:
- Some of the feedback so far has suggested users may need more than 12 months (from the start of the consultation period) to prepare for the change, and therefore the current planned transition date would be January 2026.
- Thus far, no use case for this length increase has yet been identified for the International Edition outside of the Medicinal Product Hierarchy.
- In addition to this, whilst , SNOMED International is planning to increase a small number of existing terms beyond the current 255 characters, in order to remove ambiguity in some of the medicinal product terms. Whilst the limit would increase to a maximum of 4096 characters, there is no current intention to increase any actual terms much beyond the existing 255 characters - the maximum so far proposed was not even 400 characters in length, and would therefore present no clinical safety risk for user interfaces, etcthe existing terms identified for an increase in character length are currently expected to increase to approximately 330 characters. Currently less than 20 existing International Edition terms have been identified for an increase beyond 255 characters, but the final figure and proposed character lengths are subject to change.
- For example:
- id effectiveTime active moduleId conceptId languageCode typeId term caseSignificanceId
- 5089025013 20240505 1 900000000000207008 1162634005 en 900000000000003001 Pediatric vaccine product containing only acellular Bordetella pertussis antigen and Clostridium tetani toxoid antigen and Corynebacterium diphtheriae toxoid antigen and Haemophilus influenzae type b capsular polysaccharide conjugated antigen and Hepatitis B virus and inactivated whole Human poliovirus antigen (medicinal product) 900000000000020002
- id effectiveTime active moduleId conceptId languageCode typeId term caseSignificanceId
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