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The ability to tailor SNOMED CT to support specific use cases speaks to the adaptability of SNOMED CT, and any customization artifact that is beneficial to share may be useful to include in an extension. NRCs may need to configure SNOMED CT to match national requirements for reporting, analytics, language preferences etc.. Hence, following SNOMED CT derivatives reference sets may be included in an extension to meet a range of SNOMED CT use cases:

• A subset of SNOMED CT concepts or descriptions for use in a clinical specialty speciality or practice
• Groups of concepts to support national reporting and analytics
• Prioritized components to support the logical display of search results
• Sets of components annotated with indicators that may trigger various guidelines or features
• Associations between SNOMED CT concepts, for example , to represent language preferences or represent reasons for inactivation

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