It is also possible to nest
, one inside the other. Any
validmay valid may be enclosed in a pair of brackets, and included as the value of an attribute in another
. For example, the
followingdescribes following describes a medication product that has a single dose form, which is both a spray and a suspension:
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373873005 |Pharmaceutical / biologic product|:
411116001|Has dose form| = (421720008|Spray dose form| + 7946007 |Drug suspension|) |
In the example above, note the use of round brackets (i.e. "( )") to identify a nested
, as opposed to braces (i.e. "{ }"), which is used to identify attribute groups.
The following examples show how complexmay complex
may be build up from simple ones, a layer at a time. This
firstdescribes first describes a left hip structure:
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24136001|Hip joint structure|:
272741003|Laterality| = 7771000|Left| |
This next expression uses the "left hip"
above to describe a procedure to replace it:
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397956004|Prosthetic arthroplasty of the hip|:
363704007|Procedure site| = (24136001|Hip joint structure|:
272741003|Laterality| = 7771000|Left|) |
Applying a further groupedto grouped
to the above describes a procedure to replace a left hip by inserting a prosthesis. Note that this example mixes an ungrouped qualification and a grouped qualification. Where this is done, the canonical representation of the expression includes all ungrouped attributes before the grouped ones (see
Terminology Services Guide for more details). Please also note that in the previous version of this standard a comma was not permitted between the last ungrouped attribute and the first attribute group – however this comma is now optional to avoid unexpected syntax errors.
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397956004|Prosthetic arthroplasty of the hip|:
405814001|Procedure site - indirect| = (24136001|Hip joint structure|: 272741003|Laterality| = 7771000|Left|),
{ 363699004|Direct device| = 304120007|Total hip replacement prosthesis|,
260686004|Method| = 425362007|Surgical insertion - action|} |
Finally, the abovemay above
may be included within a contextual wrapper, to describe a procedure that has been performed on a patient to replace a left hip by inserting a prosthesis.
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243796009|Situation with explicit context|:
{ 408730004|Procedure context| = 385658003|Done|,
408731000|Temporal context| = 410512000|Current or specified|,
408732007|Subject relationship context| = 410604004|Subject of record|,
363589002|Associated procedure| =
( 397956004|Prosthetic arthroplasty of the hip|:
405814001|Procedure site - indirect| = (24136001|Hip joint structure|:
272741003|Laterality| = 7771000|Left|)
{ 363699004|Direct device| = 304120007|Total hip replacement prosthesis|,
260686004|Method| = 425362007|Surgical insertion - action|} ) } |