Vocabulary for EhrObservationCode

 

Description:

Any code from a controlled clinical vocabulary supported in the communicating community. This should include a Read Code from Version 2.

 

See also notes on coded use of EhrObservationValue.

 

Values:

Version:

04

Date:

22nd March 2005

 

The default OID for Snomed CT codes is: 2.16.840.1.113883.2.1.3.2.4.15

The default OID for Read codes V2 is: 2.16.840.1.113883.2.1.6.2

 

Code

Description

Note

SNOMED CT ConceptId (with qualifying attribute name and value ConceptIds in qualifier sub-elements if required) representing a kind of observation which has a separate expressed value of some type.

 

 

SNOMED CT ConceptId (with qualifying attribute name and value ConceptIds in qualifier sub-elements if required)  representing a disorder, finding or clinical event.

 

 

Another code representing an observation or finding.