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SNOMED CT (Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms)

SNOMED CT (Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms) is the world's most comprehensive multilingual clinical healthcare terminology, a systematically organized collection of medical terms for standardizing, capturing, storing, and exchanging clinical information in electronic health records. Originally developed by the College of American Pathologists in the 1960s, it was created in 1999 through the merger of SNOMED RT and the UK's NHS CTV3. Currently managed by SNOMED International, it contains over 350,000 active concepts with millions of relationships and has been translated into more than 20 languages. With its hierarchical structure of 19 top-level hierarchies, it contributes to standardization of clinical records, decision support, data analysis, and improved interoperability.

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code slug name description
1 clinical-finding Clinical finding Results of clinical observation, assessment or judgment.
2 procedure Procedure Activities performed in the provision of health care.
3 observable-entity Observable entity Questions or assessments that can produce answers or results.
4 body-structure Body structure Normal and abnormal anatomical structures.
5 organism Organism Organisms of significance in human and animal medicine.
6 substance Substance General substances, chemical constituents, body substances.
7 pharmaceutical-biologic-product Pharmaceutical/biologic product Medications and biological products.
8 specimen Specimen Materials collected for examination.
9 physical-object Physical object Medical devices, implants, and other physical objects.
10 physical-force Physical force Energy and forces.
11 event Event Incidents and situations that occur.
12 environment-geographical-location Environment or geographical location Locations, environments, and geographical places.
13 social-context Social context Social circumstances and contexts.
14 situation-with-explicit-context Situation with explicit context Concepts where clinical context is specified.
15 staging-and-scales Staging and scales Classification systems and assessment scales.
16 qualifier-value Qualifier value Modifying terms used to qualify other concepts.
17 record-artifact Record artifact Document types and record-related concepts.
18 special-concept Special concept Metadata and navigation concepts.
19 linkage-concept Linkage concept Concepts used for mapping to other coding systems.

A comprehensive clinical terminology for standardizing clinical information in electronic health records.