Vocabulary for A

Vocabulary for AdministrationSiteSnCT

Description:

Assigned OID: the OID for the UK subset of SnomedCT, qv the link below

Describes the place on the body by which a medicine enters the body. For instance a tablet has an approach site of “by mouth”.

The vocabulary should be drawn from the relevant part of Snomed CT.

Was SnomedActSite prior to release 3.1.

Values:

Version:	01
Date:	25^th June 2004

Code

Description

Note

Any Snomed-CT code that is a descendant of the concept “Physical Anatomical Entity”

This area of coding is not well defined. Further work is underway to develop a better defined hierarchy.