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

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• A RealmID identifies the specialty.<br />

• A Realm Concept Subset refers to all the Concepts used in that specialty. For each of these Concepts,<br />

the Subset may specify a MemberStatusthat assigns a priority to that Concept. There are nine priority<br />

levels from 1 (highest priority) to 9 (lowest priority).<br />

• A Realm Concept Subset only refers to Concepts. However, the assigned priority also affects the<br />

Descriptions associated with those Concepts.<br />

4.4.3.5.9. Local needs of organizations or individual users<br />

The previous sections have dealt with requirements of countries, regions and specialties. Organizations and<br />

individual users may also have similar requirements for restricting or prioritizing access to particular Concepts.<br />

The Realm Concept Subsets described in the previous sections may also be applied at a more local level to<br />

meet the needs of an organization , user or group of users.<br />

In practice , a localorganization or individual user will often need a Realm Concept Subset derived by merging<br />

or refining other Realm Concept Subsets.<br />

Example:<br />

A cardiologist, working in "Any Town General Hospital," an NHS hospital in the UK, may be best served<br />

by a Subset derived from a combination of the existing Realm Concept Subsets specified for:<br />

• UK NHS<br />

• Cardiology specialty.<br />

• Any Town General Hospital.<br />

• With modifications for any local factors (e.g. special research interests of the local cardiology<br />

department or clinician).<br />

4.4.3.5.10. National, organizational and specialty variations in term preferences<br />

In addition to requirements for different Concepts, a country, organization or specialty may have different<br />

preferences for the Terms to be used to describe identical Concepts.<br />

The Subset mechanism meets the requirement for national and region variations in the use of Terms in the<br />

following way:<br />

• Any Realm that requires a specialized refinement of a Language or Dialect may specify a Realm Description<br />

Subset.<br />

• A Realm Description Subset is similar to a Language Subset but differs in two ways:<br />

• It contains a RealmID that identifies a Realm within which it applies;<br />

• It must not be used to override the language -specific Fully Specified Name role assignments made<br />

by a Language Subset.<br />

• Support for Term variations is Language or Dialect dependent. Therefore, in a multilingual country or<br />

organization , there may be a single Realm Concept Subset but several separate Realm Description<br />

Subsets.<br />

A <strong>SNOMED</strong> CT enabled application should be able to:<br />

• Use a selected Realm Description Subset, in place of a Language Subset, to restrict access to terms and<br />

to assign the Preferred Term and Synonym roles to different Descriptions.<br />

4.4.3.5.11. Managing the coded content of messages<br />

Terminology services <strong>Guide</strong> (<strong>RF1</strong>) | 341<br />

Healthcare messages include fields that can be populated with codes from clinical coding schemes. <strong>SNOMED</strong><br />

CT provides Concept Identifiers as a means of encoding Concepts. These concept Identifiers are suitable<br />

for use in appropriate fields of many clinical messages.<br />

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

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