1 Introduction
SNOMED CT terminology provides a common language that enables a consistent way of indexing, storing, retrieving, and aggregating clinical data across specialties and sites of care.
The International Health Terminology Standards Development organisation (IHTSDO®), trading as SNOMED International, maintains the SNOMED CT technical design, the content architecture, the SNOMED CT content (includes the concepts table, the descriptions table, the relationships table, a history table, and ICD mappings), and related technical documentation.
2 Background
This document provides a summarized description of the content changes included in the September 2019 March 2020 Production release of the SNOMED Clinical Terms® Managed Service Belgium Extension package.
It will also includes technical notes detailing the known issues which have been identified (should any of these exist). These are content or technical issues where the root cause is understood, and the fix has been discussed and agreed, but has yet to be implemented.
This Belgium Extension package is dependent upon, and should therefore be consumed in conjunction with the SNOMED CT® July 2019 January 2020 International Edition release.
2.1 Scope
This document is written for the purpose described above and is not intended to provide details of the technical specifications for SNOMED CT or encompass every change made during the release.
3 Content Development Activity
3.1 Summary
Content from the SNOMED CT® July 2019 International CT® January 2020 International Edition release has been translated.
This extension contains concepts, relationships and reference sets with their Dutch and French translations for healthcare professionals.
3.2 New and Updated Content
New Belgian content in this release:
The extension contains for the first time 3 "reference sets"; these are simple reference sets for translated plant materials, animal materials and edible substances.
Another 4163 7015 concepts were translated in French and Dutch.
The concepts that were translated belong to the following hierarchies:
FRENCH
FR | acceptability | Total (ALL) | |||||||||
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hierarchy | Acceptable | Preferred | |||||||||
body structure | 1536 | 662 | 2198 | ||||||||
event | 5 | environment / location1 | 4 | 56 | |||||||
finding | 1851 9 | 3028 145 | 4879 154 | ||||||||
observable entitymetadata | 7
| 19 3 | 26 3 | ||||||||
organism | 1 5 | 1 | 2 | physical object | 12 | 94 | 1061 | 6 | |||
procedure | 125 | 1161 | 1286 | ||||||||
product | 31 31 | 6090 | |||||||||
qualifier value | 2 | 43 | 45 | ||||||||
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situation | 1 5 | 12 | 13 | social concept | 17 | 17 | 6 | 11 | special concept | 1 | 1 |
substance | 5 121 | 135 768 | 140 889 | ||||||||
Total (ALL) | 3428150 | 41637015 | 75917165 |
DUTCH
NL | acceptability | Total (ALL) | ||||||||
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hierarchy | Acceptable | Preferred | ||||||||
body structureevent | 1242 5 | 662 1 | 1904 | 6 | ||||||
environment / location | 4 | 4 | finding | 2047 7 | 3028 145 | 5075 152 | ||||
observable entitymetadata | 6 3 | 19 325 | ||||||||
organismorganism | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | physical object | 64 | 94 | 1586 | ||
procedure | 365 | 1161 | 1526 | |||||||
product | 40 6090 | 31 | 71 | |||||||
qualifier value | 8 | 43 | 51 | |||||||
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situation | 23 5 | 12 6 12 | 11 | |||||||
social concept substance | 17 10 | 17 | special concept | 1 | 1 | 768 | 778 | substance | 135 | 158 |
Total (ALL) | 3467 37 | 4163 7015 | 7630 7052 |
Differences with September release | Number of RF2 records impacted | Rationale | |||
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Concept files | 3 | 3 new records added for new refsets, as part of latest editing cycle | |||
AttributeValue files | 725226 | 725 226 new records added as part of latest editing cycle=> corrections of descriptions of the march release + descriptions for inactivated concepts | |||
Description files (EN) | 6 | 6 added for new refsets, as part of latest editing cycle | |||
Description files (FR) | 76317096 | 7612 7073 added, plus 19 23 inactivated as part of latest editing cycle | |||
Description files (NL) | 76797279 | 7665 7234 added, plus 14 45 inactivated as part of latest editing cycle | |||
Language files (EN) | 6 | 6 added for new refsets, as part of latest editing cycle | |||
Language files (FR) | 76327097 | 7613 7074 added, plus | 19 23 inactivated as part of latest editing cycle | ||
Language files (NL) | 76847294 | 7670 7249 added, plus | 14 45 inactivated as part of latest editing | cyclecycle | |
Inferred Relationship files | 193 | 19 3 new records added for new refsets, as part of latest editing cycle (PLUS 9596 records removed completely as requested, see technical notes) | |||
OWLExpression files | 5 | 3 new records added for new refsets, as | inactivated added as part of latest editing cycle | ||
Stated Relationship files | 5 | 5 records (all of them) inactivated | |||
RefsetDescriptor files | 3 | 3 new records added for new refsets, as below | |||
Translated Plant Materials Simple Refset | 213 | 213 new records added for this new refset (551000172106), as part of latest editing cycle | |||
Translated Edible Substances Simple Refset | 434 | 434 new records added for this new refset (541000172109), as part of latest editing cycle | |||
Translated Animal Materials Simple Refset | 101 | 101 new records added for this new refset (561000172108), as part of latest editing cycle | OWLExpression files | 5 | 5 new records added in place of the Stated Relationship records |
4 Technical notes
4.1 Known Issues
Known Issues are content or technical issues where the root cause is understood, and the resolution has been discussed and agreed but has yet to be implemented. This can be due to a number of reasons, from lack of capacity within the current editing cycle, to the risk of impact to the stability of SNOMED CT if the fix were to be deployed at that stage in the Product lifecycle.
For the SNOMED CT Managed Service - Belgium Extension Release, the following Known Issues were identified, and agreed to be resolved in the next editing cycle:
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4.2 Technical notes
Please find some additional information about two files that have been made available since September 2018:
The file "sct2_Relationship_Full/Snapshot/Delta_BE1000172_20190915" contains some unwanted additional records. We will fix this issue together with Snomed International for the release of March 2020. Until that moment we ask you to not use this file. It is not necessary to use it since Belgium doesn’t have any concepts of its own that can be used in an eHR (EPD/DPI) at this moment.
The file "der2_cRefset_AttributeValueDelta_BE1000172_20190915.txt" is a kind of “audit log” containing the description (in Dutch and French) of concepts that have been inactivated. These “metadata” are not necessary for using the Belgian extension. At this moment the file contains descriptions of all concepts that have been activated during the last 2 years. In the future this file will be updated with concepts that have been activated during the past 6 months. Remark: the descriptions themselves are not inactivated; they are necessary to read concepts that were active in the past. The unwanted additional records (since September 2018) in the file with the inferred relationships are removed.
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