Description

Core terminology that provides a common language that enables a consistent way of capturing, sharing and aggregating health data across specialties and sites of care.

Contact Information For Nursing Content: Cynthia Lundberg, RN, BSN Terminology Manager, Nursing SNOMED International College of American Pathologists 325 Waukegan Road Northfield, IL 60093 Phone: 1-800-323-4040, ext. 7673 or 847-832-7673 Fax: 847-832-8683 E-mail: clundbe@cap.org

Latest Version January, 2007 Number of Nursing Terms Over 308,000 health care concepts with unique meanings and formal logic-based definitions organized into hierarchies. Includes concept from NANDA, NIC, NOC, PNDS, Omaha System and CCC.

Relationship of SNOMED CT to Other ANA Recognized Terminologies and Data Element Sets
Includes concept level terms from NANDA, NIC, NOC, PNDS, Omaha, CCC

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Relationship to Related National Initiatives
Recognized by NCVHS and CHI as acceptable standard for federal PMRI effort