XMDR Content Survey - SNOMED CT

II. Core Content Characterization

Title*

SNOMED Clinical Terms®

Acronym

SNOMED CT®

Web page(s)

http://www.snomed.org/

Identifier

URI:ISO:2.16.840.1.113883.6.96

Contact Information

SNOMED Customer Service

SNOMED International
325 Waukegan Road
Northfield, IL 60093-2750

Phone: 800-323-4040 ext. 7700 U.S. and Canada
Phone: 847-832-7700
E-mail: snomed@cap.org

Inclusion Rationale*

SNOMED CT has the potential to become one of the main reference terminologies in the clinical domain. On January 29, 2004, the US Consolidated Health Informatics Initiative(CHI) recommended and endorsed SNOMED CT as the terminology of choice for the domains of anatomy, nursing, diagnosis and problems, and non-lab interventions and procedures

Subject*

• biological, biomedical, medical or healthcare

Kind of Metadata*

• data element characterization
  • definitions - natural language, logic-based
• Term Lists
  • code sets - e.g., country codes, CAS numbers, airport codes
• Classification and Categorization
  • Classification/Categorization Schemes and Taxonomies
• Relationship Groups
  • Ontologies

Size statistics(estimated)*

Approx 364,400 Concepts (July 2004)

Approx 1,450,000 Edges

Initial Submitter*

Harold Solbrig solbrig@mayo.edu

Date of Initial Survey*

2005-03-10

III. Supplementary Content Characterization

The following attributes of the content characterization will be completed by XMDR staff. These attributes will be collected for those content collections which are considered to be high priority for inclusion in the prototype.

Attributes marked with an asterisk (*) are considered mandatory.

Date*

2005-01

Creator

College of American Pathologists

Publisher*

Snomed International

Description*

See: SNOMED International Home Page

Language(s)*

English

Spanish

German

Graph-theoretic Classification*

Indicate type of metadata according to the following graph-theoretic classification scheme:

• partial order (e.g., is-a, and part-of relations) Partial order = DAG + transitivity

Format / Schemas(s)*

UMLS RRF

Custom Set of Text Tables

Others?

Media / Download*

Is the metadata resource available for download? YES

Constraint Specifications

?

Protocol(s)

?

Licensing Issues*

The English edition of SNOMED Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT) core content is now available, free of charge, through the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) Unified Medical Language System®(UMLS®) Metathesaurus®

Export restrictions

U.S. licensees will be able to use SNOMED (as distributed by NLM) in the U.S. without charge and without signing a separate license agreement with the CAP.

Non-U.S. UMLS users will continue to require a separate license agreement with the CAP for production uses of SNOMED CT.

Subsets

There are subsetting mechanisms available

Versions, Updates

January 2005. Versions are currently released once every 6 months.

Documentation

See: SNOMED Web Site

Character Set Encoding*

UTF-8

Measurement units

NA

Dataset / Standards Dependencies

?

Related Datasets

Other similar or related metadata resources.

Software tools

Clue Browser

Other tools as well

Audience(s)

MD's RN's and other Clinical Experts

Citation

CAP. SNOMED RT: Systemized Nomenclature of Medicine, Reference Terminology. College of American Pathologists. Available at: www.snomed.org.

Surveyor*

Harold Solbrig

Date of Survey*

2005-03-11

IV. Content Characterization by XMDR Staff

The following data elements are to be supplied by XMDR project staff/collaborators.

Attributes marked with an asterisk (*) are considered mandatory.

XMDR Participant Expertise

Names of persons (if any) on XMDR project (and contact info) who are familiar with this data set. XMDR participant organizations who have copies of this metadata resource.

XMDR Evaluator*

Names of persons on XMDR project (and contact info) who evaluated this metadata resource for inclusion (e.g., if the content survey was completed by someone at the content repository).

Inclusion Priority*

Priority suggested for acquisition and ingestion of this metadata resource.