Vocabulary for Substance
Description:
A code representing a substance present in a medication. It may be an active ingredient, e.g.
paracetamol, or an excipient, such as alcohol. It may be a combination of two substances, e.g.
paracetamol and codeine in a co-codamol preparation.
Values:
Version: | 02 |
Date: | 5th April 2004 |
Code | Description | Note |
A code taken from one of: | Any code that describes an active chemical constituent of a pharmaceutical product. | A code from Snomed-CT (UK) or Clinical Terms (Read codes) Version 3 may be accompanied by additional qualifying codes from the same coding system. |
Optionally, a code from another of the coding systems described above, representing a "translation" of the first code. A translation code is not relevant if the data was originally recorded in Snomed-CT UK | The “translation” code should have an identical or more general meaning than the original code. |
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