Search Terms
In many cases you will want to search for one or more concepts for the purposes of editing or reference. The search tab allows you to search SNOMED by typing text in the search field. After pressed Enter key, it will lists all concepts that match your query. The search tab contains a number of features:
- View search results by matching terms or grouped by concept
- Distinguish between primitive and fully defined concepts in a set of search results
- Distinguish between active and inactive concepts in a set of search results
- View more details about a concept in a set of search results
Add concepts from a set of search results to a saved list for future use
You can use wildcards in the search term to find partial matches. Asterisk ( * ) matches all subsequent characters regardless of word length. Question mark ( ? ) matches a single character; if more than character wildcard is used the search pattern finds all words stemmed by the search pattern (including those longer than the pattern length); it also matches words with fewer letters than all the additional character wildcards, but matching up their length). For example:
punc* would find all words stemmed with "punc" eg punch, punched, punctum, puncture etc
punc? would find punch
punc??? would find punctate, puncture, punch, punched, punctum and puncture
punc?u? would find punctum and puncture, but not punched- Purely numeric search queries will try to match against SNOMED CT identifiers, and return an error message if none are found. For example searching for 300 returns "Error performing search: [object Object]: Not Found: Concept with identifier '300' could not be found." To search for a numeric value in an FSN, SYN etc, put quotes around the number or add a wildcard * to the end of the query (eg "300" or 300*). The search will then find matches in text content (including partial matches, so "300" will match "300", "200-300", "300,000" etc.
Search by Concept Id concept
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If desired a single concept id can be used to locate a specific concept. This is useful for newly created concepts. |
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View search results by matching terms or grouped by concept
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From the search tab, you may type a query into the search field and the search widget will begin to locate results. You can toggle your results view between matching terms (left) or grouped by concept (right) by selecting the checkbox next to the search field. |
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View Matching Terms This search query returns all cases of a query. Eg. If i search for Diabetes mellitus excluded I would receive 3 search results for this concept since my word "diabetes" is used three times when defining this concept. |
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Grouped By Concept For this same search query, if I select Grouped By Concept, I will only receive one search result for each concept, narrowing my search result to one. |
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Distinguish and filter between active, inactive, primitive and fully defined concepts in a set of search results
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| If desired search results can be filtered to active concepts only by selecting the Active Only button |
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View more details about a concept in a set of search results, and its position in the taxonomy
From a set of search results you may want to view more details about a concept before adding it to your saved list or selecting it for editing. To do so click either the  or  icon within the concept that you wish to display the details of and a modal will appear. |  |
| Selecting the taxonomy tab in the modal will allow a user to view the concepts position within the hierarchy. |
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Add Concepts From Search Results to the Saved List
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If you want to save a concept into the Saved List from the search results, you can click the 'add' button
For more information on the saved list see, Task View - Saved List |
