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Page At A Glance
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.
The SNOMED CT Irish Extension - packages these components for release every April and October, to be used with the latest SNOMED CT International Edition release.
The same content can be viewed online using the SNOMED CT browser., and eHealth Ireland website
2 Background
This document provides a summarized description of the content changes included in the October 2020 Production release of the SNOMED Clinical Terms® Managed Service Ireland Extension package.
It will also include 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 Ireland Extension package is dependent upon, and should therefore be consumed in conjunction with the SNOMED CT® July 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 2020 International Edition release has been included, alongside additional components for use in Ireland.
This extension contains concepts, relationships and reference sets for healthcare professionals.
3.2 New and Updated Content
New content in this release:
This is the 5th SNOMED CT Irish Edition Production release.
New and updated content
Concept statistics
The SNOMED Irish National Release Centre published 12 new concepts, 4 new reference sets and these are available in the Irish Extension October release.
Table 1. New concepts in the Irish Edition October release
Total number of concepts | 12 |
Assessment scale | 1 |
Procedure (procedure) | 2 |
Observable entity(observable entity) | 2 |
Foundation Metadata Concept | 4 |
Qualifier Value | 3 |
Refer to Appendix 1, Table 1.1 to view the 12 new concepts.
This content was derived through the dataset specification process and includes concepts from
- National Early Warning Score
- Chronic Disease Management
- Maternal and New-born Clinical Management System
The SNOMED Irish National Release Centre promoted 82 new concepts and these will be available in the SNOMED CT January 2021 International Edition release.
Reference sets
There are 4 new reference sets in the Irish October extension
| 821000220101 | Chronic Disease Management (Ireland) 20201021 |
| 811000220108 | Coronavirus Reference set Ireland 20201021 |
| 841000220107 | Gynaecology discharge summary 20201021 |
| 831000220103 | Irish National Early Warning Score 20201021 |
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 - Ireland Extension Release, the following Known Issues were identified, and agreed to be resolved in the next editing cycle:
4.2 Resolved Issues
Resolved Issues are those where the resolution has been discussed and agreed, and has been implemented in time for this release.
For the SNOMED CT Managed Service - Ireland Extension Release, the following Issues were Resolved:
4.3 Technical notes
No additional technical notes for this release.
Appendix 1
| 681000220101 | Standard alcohol drinks/week (qualifier value) | (qualifier value) |
| 761000220102 | Adult safeguarding (foundation metadata concept) | (foundation metadata concept) |
| 711000220100 | Make Every Contact Count (foundation metadata concept) | (foundation metadata concept) |
| 731000220105 | Irish National Early Warning System Urgent Response (procedure) | (procedure) |
| 781000220106 | Irish Chronic Disease Management (foundation metadata concept) | (foundation metadata concept) |
| 811000220108 | Coronavirus reference set Ireland (foundation metadata concept) | (foundation metadata concept) |
| 651000220108 | Irish National Early Warning System (procedure) | (procedure) |
| 671000220104 | Standard alcohol drinks/day (qualifier value) | (qualifier value) |
| 701000220103 | Number of standard alcohol drinks consumed on heaviest drinking day (observable entity) | (observable entity) |
| 691000220103 | Number of standard alcohol drinks consumed on typical drinking day (observable entity) | (observable entity) |
| 721000220107 | Irish National Early Warning Score (foundation metadata concept) | (foundation metadata concept) |
| 661000220105 | Standard alcohol drink (qualifier value) | (qualifier value) |
| 741000220101 | Irish National Early Warning System Score (assessment scale) | (assessment scale) |
SCTID | FSN | Semantic tag | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Approvals
Final Version | Date | Approver | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.1 | Terance Shird | Approved | |
| 0.1 |
| Rory Davidson | Approved |
| 1.0 | Theresa Barry | Approved |
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Draft Amendment History
Version | Date | Editor | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
0.1 |
| Andrew Atkinson | Initial draft created |
| 1.0 | Theresa Barry | Final draft |