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SNOMED CT® Release Format 1 (RF1) Guide - ihtsdo

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• Reject, highlight or apply other agreed business rules to information received by the system that contains<br />

SCTIDs for components from namespaces that are not in the list, or recognized Extensions.<br />

4.2.4. Providing access to history information<br />

When a new release is installed, an application providing record services may need to update records, indices,<br />

queries, or protocols to take account of changes to the terminology.<br />

Caution: Updates to records as a result of terminology version changes should be limited to addition<br />

of updated information. The integrity of original clinical record entries must not be compromised by any<br />

updating process. The original entry should be retained and should be reused to support subsequent<br />

updates.<br />

To support these maintenance activities a terminology server should provide access to:<br />

• Information in the Component History Table indicating which components have been changed since the<br />

previous release.<br />

• Information in the References Table identifying components which replace or were duplicated by inactive<br />

components:<br />

• Not applicable to Concepts (see next bullet below).<br />

• Information in the Relationships Table identifying Concepts that:<br />

• Replace an "erroneous" Concept:<br />

• RelationshipType | REPLACED BY |<br />

• Are identical to a "duplicate" Concept:<br />

• RelationshipType | SAME AS |<br />

• Are potential meanings of an "ambiguous" Concept:<br />

• RelationshipType | MAY BE A |<br />

• Were previously subtypes of an Inactive Concept:<br />

• RelationshipType"WAS A" (Future Use).<br />

Access to the Component History Table and References Table may only be required to support for a time a<br />

limited set of maintenance activities following each release. However, access to information about Active<br />

Concepts related to Inactive Concepts is often required for day-to-day operation of the application. For<br />

example, it will affect the selective retrieval and analysis of data information originally recorded with a Concept<br />

that is now inactive.<br />

4.3. Foundation Terminology services<br />

Terminology services <strong>Guide</strong> (<strong>RF1</strong>) | 305<br />

The following list summarizes a set of essential services that any terminology server is likely to require. Some<br />

of these are reiterated in more detail in subsequent sections. In other cases, support for a more complex<br />

service presumes the existence of one or more of these foundation services.<br />

© 2002-2012 International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation CVR #: 30363434

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