Summary
SNOMED International is looking to inactivate concepts that include the term, mental handicap. Please advise by October 15th if this would be an issue for your country.
- 47437004 |Mental handicap (finding)|
- 275101005 |Family history: Mental handicap (situation)|
- 170695009 |Mental handicap problem (finding)|
- 276041009 |Cares for mentally handicapped dependent (finding)|
- 305698003 |Seen by psychiatrist for mental handicap (finding)|
- 305869004 |Seen by mental handicap psychiatry service (finding)|
- 306294000 |Referral to psychiatrist for mental handicap (procedure)|
- 305990008 |Referral by psychiatrist for mental handicap (procedure)|
- 305290003 |Admission by psychiatrist for mental handicap (procedure)|
- 306458001 |Discharge by psychiatrist for mental handicap (procedure)|
- 305518007 |Under care of psychiatrist for mental handicap (finding)|
- 306137002 |Referral to mental handicap psychiatry service (procedure)|
- 305404002 |Admission to mental handicap psychiatry department (procedure)|
- 306611004 |Discharge from mental handicap psychiatry service (procedure)|
- 305331003 |Admission by nurse for the mentally handicapped (procedure)|
- 394815005 |Mental handicap (specialty) (qualifier value)|
- 309365006 |Psychiatrist for mental handicap (occupation)|
- 310120006 |Mental handicap psychiatry service (qualifier value)|
- 310183005 |Nurse for the mentally handicapped (occupation)|
- 24627001 |Teacher of the mentally handicapped (occupation)|
Actions:
| Date | Requested action | Requester(s) | Response required by: | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Response of planned inactivation | Please post your final responses in the Country response table below. Discussion comments can be made as comments. |
Relevant documents
Country response
| Country | Date | Response |
|---|---|---|
| DK | 20210924 | Not an issue. |
| New Zealand | 20210927 | This change is thoroughly supported and welcomed. No issues with the removal of these terms. One related issue, we do not like the use of the term mental retardation either: the US English and Great Britain English language reference sets both include ‘Mental retardation’ as an acceptable synonym for 110359009 |Intellectual disability (disorder)| we would encourage its removal as an acceptable synonym. |
| USA | 20210927 | Limited evidence of use of "mental handicap" concepts in the Value Set authority Center. Inactivating these concepts is unlikely to create significant issues. More specifically, only 2 concepts from the list found in one value set each. 47437004 |Mental handicap (finding)| 170695009 |Mental handicap problem (finding)| in Name: Problem Note: 170695009 is part of an intentional value set, which means that it was included only as part of the descendants of some higher-level concept, here for some sort of problem list value set. |
| UK | The term used in UK is "learning disability", the usage of these concepts in UK is very low. Is the plan to author concepts that have "learning disability" in the terms to replace inactivated concepts ? If this is not your intention for all of them, can you consider authoring a new concept to replace 306294000 |Referral to psychiatrist for mental handicap (procedure)|? it has a local UK synonym Referral to learning disabilities psychiatrist and this concept has highest usage in UK out of all the conceps on the list. | |
| Australia | 20211014 | We have no objection to the proposal, however, there a couple of items which belong to the |Australian emergency department reference set| that may cause issues for our users. These are: 47437004 |Mental handicap (finding)| 170695009 |Mental handicap problem (finding)| Does SNOMED International plan to replace these concepts if the proposal pushes through? |
| Member countries without a CMAG rep |