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  • A high-level description of the importance of different search and data entry features
  • Examples of each of the features described.

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Those designing, developing, procuring or evaluating services that include support for SNOMED CT-enabled search and data entry

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These people need:

  • To understand the range of search features likely to be important for their users.
  • To be able to develop and deploy search and data entry techniques that provide their users with effective ways to use SNOMED CT as part of the process of clinical record keeping.

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Search and data entry are closely related and as illustrated in Figure 1 can be regarded as two steps in a single process. A clinical user needs to record a clinical idea (e.g. a sign, symptom, diagnosis or procedure). The user searches for the relevant Concept, views the results, finds the appropriate Concept, selects it for data entry and the data is stored.

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A search and data entry process

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Although there is often a close relationship between search and data entry, the two processes also need to be considered separately. This guide has therefore been categorized into two parts: the Search part and the Data Entry part.

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