Nash Shelley K
College of American Pathologists, Northfield, IL, USA.
AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2003;2003:949.
SNOMED CT was created from a merger of SNOMED RT and United Kingdom's National Health Service's Clinical Terms Version 3. The resulting terminology has a plethora of synonymous terms. This paper discusses how a review synonyms in the Procedure section of SNOMED CT revealed some nonsynonmous synonyms, hypothesizes why errors in synonymy may have occurred, and explains the steps taken to resolve nonsynonymous concepts previously assigned to synonyms.
SNOMED CT是由SNOMED RT与英国国家医疗服务体系临床术语第3版合并而成。由此产生的术语有大量同义词。本文讨论了对SNOMED CT程序部分同义词的审查如何揭示了一些非同义的同义词,推测了同义错误可能发生的原因,并解释了为解决先前分配给同义词的非同义概念所采取的步骤。